Tokyo, Mar. 15.
While Mr. Y. Suma, the spokesman of the Foreign Office, stated this morning that the Tientsin silver issue was reaching its final stages and he was hopeful that an agreement was rear, British embassy officials told me today they entertained only "moderate optimism." The situation is best described by saying that several knotty questions remain unsolved, but considerable progress has been made as compared with the previous situation. Army circles told me that the Eritish attitude recently seems more conducive to a settlement than formerly.
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