The full Cabinet, or possibly only its Foreign Affairs Committee, will most likely meet at the end of this week to examine a Board of Trade report on possible economic mei sures against Japan. A final decision will then be taken in the light of latest reports from Tokyo.
Political quarters reported no easing of the Anglo-Japanese situation this evening.
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, British Ambassador in Tokyo, had sent a despatch after his interview with M. Hachiro Arita, Japanese Foreign
lore, &nd this had been studied But it had revealed no change in Japan's uncompromising stand and had not served to modify the situation since "Mr. Arita had merely recorded British views but had not himself made any observations, they stated, They voiced the opinion that the Tokyo Government was still "in consultation" over amicable means of settling the Tientsin dispute. But, at the same time, they were none 100 hopeful in expressing beliefs that Tokyo would shortly forward precise claims along the lines of statements recently made by a Japanese spokesman in Tientsin.
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