situation as seen from London reaches The ups and downs of the Far London, June 21.
a new point today with reports from Tokyo to the effect that the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, in conversation with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, expressed the readiness of Japan to treat the Tientsin imbroglio as a local affair and to settle it on that basis. The conversation is stated to have lasted more than one hour.
According to a Tokyo dispatch to the "Daily Telegraph," the British Ambassador communicated to London a suggested plan for a local settle ment. The paper declares, however, that the Japanese military authorities in Tientsin are determined to solve, simultaneously with the question of the British Concession, the entire problem f British Concessions in China, and that this is creating added difficulties—Trans-Ocean,
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