The Archive · 1939

British Warning

London, June 13.

Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador in Tokyo, has warned the Japanese Government of the dangers ofan Anglo-Japanese clash in Tien {sin, according to Mr. Vernon Bartlett, Diplomatic Correspondent of the Tne deadlock existing over the British refusal to hand over four Chinese in the British Concession may be solved, Mr. Bartlett believes, by the appointment of a committee with equal British and Japanese representation under a neutral chait-

German residents in. Tientsin, the Japanese authorities having notified the German Government that the special measures taken will not apply {o-German and Ballan nationals.

The "Berliner Zeitung Am Mittag" stated that despite the seriousness of the conflict which became for the British and Japanese an "occasion to settle old accounts" every possibility Of an accord has Not been exhausted.

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