Tokyo, Aug. 29.
The Japanese press today again charged the United States with attempting to "encircle" Japan and attacked a group of prominent American newspapermen for staging an alleged—"anti-Japanese demonstration" by making an aerial tour of the south Pacific.
The "Yomiuri Shimbun" said that ihe newspapermen aboard American Airways California Clipper. which is making a flight through New Zealand, Australia the Dutch East Indies, the Malay States and the Philippines, were in fact "staging a large scale anti-Japanese demonstration."
Among the American newspaper men making the tour of the south Pacific is Mr. Roy Howard, head. of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. The party of newsmen will arrive in Manila on Monday and will visit Hongkong on Tuesday.
The "Yomiuri" charged that the United States was attempting to "enlarge the American economic blockade against Japan and encircle us through the establishment of a regular air service linking the United States, Australia and the East Indies."
The paper said the United States also was adopting "other means" with which to encircle Japan.
The American Government, the Paper added. has sent an important Standard Oil Company executive from Manila to Batavia "for the purpose of obstructing forthcoming Japanese negotiations with the Dutch st Indies."—United Pr U.S. Chinese Pledge To
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.