Tokyo, July 14.
The "Japan Times & Advertiser" today editorially defended the new telephone regulations, effective last Saturday, prohibiting use of foreign languages between cities in Japan, permitting use only of the German language to Europe, English of. telephones," editorial stated. "Experiences in' France and Norway are still vivid.
"The routing and checking of conversations between towns would require a complex system of inter-
"The regulations will here as reasonable, national interest 1t was learned, however, that Mr. Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan who is at present on vacation at Kaj wa. was made an exception and'can use the English language over any telephone. within the confines of any one city.—JUnited Press.
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