Tokyo, Feb, 20.
Local rumours predicting far-reaching developments next month' seemed to be partly confirmed by 1 statement of the Information Board this afternoon that trade talks beween Japan and Russia had started In Moscow on February 17.
The official announcement reads: "mn decordance with an agreement of views reached a short time ago between the Japanese Ambassador, LtGeneral Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, und the Soviet Foreign Commissar, A. Viacheslav Molotov, conversations fon trade between the two countries were held for the first time in Mos-"on February 17.
"The meeting was attended by the Ambassador: "the Counsellor, Mr. Funso Miyakawa, and the Secretary, Mr, Akira Eye, representing Japan, and by the Acting Commissar for' Foreign Trade, MUM. Kaganoviteh; the Director of the Eastern Divisior of the Commissariat for Foreign. 'Ameirs, MEPN. Kumyain, and an: other oficial, representing' the Soviet Union"—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.