There will be sixty officers present and of this number forty are visitors from neighbouring Anglo-French commands.
The officers will meet tomorrow to map out joint strategy countering Japanese threats to British and French interests in the Far East.
The two nations already have general staff arrangements covering the European continent and the Mediter-raneán area.
Tomorrow's conference will extend this ce-operation to the Far East where the Japanese blockade of the British and French Concessions at "Tientsin has shown the urgency of such arrangements.
Problems to be discussed at the conference, it was learned from authoritative sources, will include:
1, The Tientsin situation.
2. Unification of British and French Far Eastern forces under a single command based at Singapore.
3. Possible reprisals against Japan, toking into consideration Japan's naval superiority in the Far East.
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