Tokyo, Dee. 23.
In an effort te settle the thorny issue finally, Japan is reported to be making a special effort to conclude new fisheries pact with Soviet russia before the expiration of the resent provisional agreement on December' 31.
Writing on the subject. the "Asahi urges Japan not to patch up the si tion again by another provisional pact.
"There is no doubt," the newspaper soys, "that the pending Msheries issue one of the basic problems which ie between the two countries today, Yroblems which Japan desires to solve one by' one.
"In Japan, the fisheries issue has lays been regarded as the barometer that clearly. indicates the diplo-
The right of Japanese to fs the waters around Saghalien is the istie—Heuter-
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