Tokyo, Feb. 21.
Confronted with a disruption of her ordinary trade channels by the outbreak of the European War, Japan today moved to launch a world-wide commercial offensive to meet the new situation.
Instructions were recently sent by the Foreign Office to Japanese diplomats abroad to sound out the opinion of the countries to which they are accredited with a view to paving the way for trade negotiations, Domei learned today.
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