The British Governments legal experts are continuing to examine the alternative means of retaliation which will be proclaimed in the forthcoming note to Tokyo, if such retaliation is still necessary.
The British note probably will not be sent to Tokyo for several days since inter-departmental consultation here involve an inevitable delay.
British officials said the Democratic ambassadors and commander-in-chiefs who conferred in Shanghai had considered three main problems:
1. The threat of a Japanese blockade of the China coast, a threat from which Japan has suddenty begun to back down.
2. Japanese demands for control of the international settlements and concession:
3. The local crisis in Kulangsu.
"The outcome of the deliberations in Shanghai will be to influence the tenor of Britain's projected note to Japan, it was understood.—United Press.
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