The Archive · 1941

Japanese London En In Honolulu

Honolulu. July 11 Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador to London, arrived here yesterday on the Kamakura Maru, en route to Tokyo.

Mr. Shigemitsu said he was going io Tokyo to report and denied reports that he would replace Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka as Foreign Minister. Instead. he said, he expected to return to London.

Mr. Shigemitsu said he expected to return to Britain by the end of the summer, He also said he did not desire to discuss Anglo-Japanese relations in detail, but said the relations "probably" would improve ¿The Japanese Embassy in London Had been damaged by bombs. Mr. Shigemitsu said. He also disclosed that there had been a few Japanese casualties in London,—United Press.

Washington. July 11 The House by a vote of 345 to 16 yesterday agreed to the measure deferring from conscription all men who became 28 years of age on July 1. The House simultaneously stripped from the bill all contro versal anti-strike measures.—United Press, Gauss Calls on Quo Tai-chi Chungking, July 11 The American. Ambassador to China, Mr. Clarence Gauss, called yesterday on the Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Quo Tai-chi, declared the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office, who, however, did not reveal the nature of the conversation.—Reuter.

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