Tokyo, July 27.
Surprise was the first reaction here to the United States denunciation of her Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Japan, concluded in 1911.
'The Japanese' nation has been led to believe that the resolution Introduced in the Senate on July 18 by 'Mr. Arthur Vandenberg, Republican Tender, which requited the Government to give Japan six months' notice of the abrogation of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan, concerned purely domestic polities snd was not Tikely to be implemented.
The summary notion by the United States "Executive has torpedoed. the, long-propagated misrepresentations of the United States attitude to Japan, which have largely been based on the forbearance of the United States.
The "Chugai Shogyo," leading commercial dally, takes last year's trade between Japan and the United States as an_ example, Japan, the newspaper makes out, bought ' 915,359,000 yen worth of American goods, including tron, all, copper, and raw cotton, but sold to America 425,123,000 yen worth Japanese merchandise, including raw Bik, tinned goods, cotton plecegoods, and! porcelain, ""Because of the fact that silk hay become indispensable to. American life, and 200,000 people are engaged in the sible industry," the "Chugui Shogyo" believes that the Washington Government is notin position to enforce "0 drastic reduction In silk impor The paper is of the opinion that the abrogation of the treaty will be followed possibly by an arms embargo against Japan, but the "Asahi" says that such an embargo will not affect Japan "because the United States has already been enforcing an arms em-argo against Japan in one form oF
Initiative in denouncing the 'Treaty' of 1911, The "Hochi" counsels the Government and people to remain calm "so a to ascertain the American motives." and to watch every development in the international situation behind the American action.
'At the same time, the paper urges the Government and people "not to budge an inch from the present posi-lon, but instead, to go. resolutely ahead with the construction of a new order in East' Asia."
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