JAPAN: Soviet Settlement

The results of the Russo-Japanese negotiations for the settlement of the Japanese claims in the northern half of the island of Sakhalin and of indemnity for the Nikolaievsk massacre are withheld from the public.

The pourparlers ended without a communiqué from either participant. That the break is not final was indicated by the fact that M. Kawakami, Japanese negotiator, entertained Adolph A. Joffe, late Soviet Envoy to Peking and representative at the Tokyo Conference, at a farewell dinner given at the Thukiji Hotel.

M. Joffe's ill health, while probably not of the "diplomatic"...

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