Arita, called on the Premier at his official residence at 11.50 o'clock today and submitted a report on the Tientsin situation and developments in Europe. An important exchange of views was reported to have taken place.
What Japan wants is British cooperation in maintaining peace and order in North China, a spokesman of the Foreign Office told foreign correspondents today.
The issue was not a mere question of delivery of alleged assassins by the British Concession authorities to the Chinese authorities. as pointed out by a spokesman of the military authorities in Tientsin yesterday, the spokesman stated.
The spokesman said Japan wants o "future guarantee" from the British Concession authorities.
If the British Concession authorities persisted in their attitude of "count-enhancing anti-Japanese terrorism and agitation with the concession itself reduced to a hotbed of such activities, it would be a very serious matter to Japan," the spokesman declared.
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