General "here, today requested that he be supplied with full information regarding the detention of Inv. Tshiro Kobayashi, manager of the local] Japanese Eastern News Agency and] Domei correspondent, but he failed to protest afler obtaining the necessary details, Mr. Toyoda visited the Colonial Secretary, Mr. H, Welsborg, and asked for reasons for the detention of the Japanese newspaperman.
He was informed that Mr. Kobayashi was detained under the defence regulation designed to pre~ vent action prejudicial' to public safety. or defence.
"The Colonial Secretary promised Mr, "Toyoda that he would receive further representations which might be made when the Japanese Consul~ General would have completed report {o Tokyo, Mr. Toyoda, how. fever, did not file any protest today.
Mrs, Kobayashi was today per mitted to visit her husband—united, Press, gotiations to Commence London Aug. 6.
Anglo-Japanese negotiations re~ garding the recent wholesale arrests of Japanese subjects in various parts of the British Empire will commence within the next few days, it was reliably learned here today.
During yesterday's session of the Cabinet, Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, informed his cabinet colleagues on the details of his conversations with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Parliamentary circles meanwhile, declared that many members of both the Labour and Conservative Parties, are striving to settle Anglo-Japanese differences amicably, pointing out the folly of spoiling the hitherto} friendly relations between Japan and Great Britain—Domei
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