New York, June 10.
Senator Key Pittman, President pro tempora of the Senate, stated later that the King had expressed his appreciation to Congress in the words of Her Majesty: am unable to express our appreciation of. the universal friendship we have received." stood, were: l. The question of Concession in Tientsin. the British now faced with the prospect of a Japanese blockade, and 2. The detention of Lieut.-Col. C
R. Spear, British Military Attache in Peiping by the Japanese military [police "at Kalgan on charges of espionage.
While no concrete results were believed to have been achieved at the meeting, it was reliably learned that Sir Robert made a detailed exposition of the British standpoint in the two issues. Particularly exhaustively presented by the British envoy was the British stand in the matter of handing over to the "Provisional Government" four Chinese, held by the British Concession authorities in Tientsin, ae the suspected assassins of Mr. Cheng Shi-kang. Commissioner of Customs.
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