new Cabinet, Washington, Jan. 15.
The Japanese-American trade crisis resulting from Washington's abroga~ tion of the Japanese-American Trade Treaty of 1911 has reached a deadlock and prospects are that mot even a stop-gap agreement will be reached before the treaty expires on January 26, all official quarters indicated ioday.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, was silent over the resignation of the Abe Cabinet in Tokyo. Apparently the State Department has not altered its position that Japan must assume full r sibility for any moves to improve relations between the two countries, Minister of Education: Chinjiro Matsuura, Minister of Commerce:—Mr. G. Fuji-wata.
Minister of Welfare:—Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, former Ambassador to London.
Minister of Agriculture:—Mr. Toshio Shimada, Executive-General of the Seiyukai Party.
Minister of Railways:—Mr. Tsuruhel Matsuno, Director of the Seiyukai Party Secretary-General of Cabinet—Mr. Sotaro Ishiwata.
Director of Legislation Bureau:—Mr. Hisatada Hirose.
A striking feature of the new Cabinet is that two former Ministers of State have joined it, not as Cabinet Ministers but one as Chief Secretary of the Cabinet—Mr. Ishiwata, Minis-
The State Department's attitude, it is believed, is that Japan must demonstrably be prepared to guarantee American rights in China.
Mr. Hull also probably will extend the scope of his moral embargo against the shipment of corta supplies to Japan if the Tokyo ernment fails to guarantee American rights in China, it also was predicted.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Embassy declined to comment on the future prospects of Japanese-American trade. The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, was confined to his bed yesterday with an attack of grippe. The Embassy staff, however, worked throughout Sunday Premier Popular With People
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