Announcing the agreement, Buller said: His Majesty's Govern: ment welcome conclusion of this agreement, in confidence that it will {facilitate removal of at least some of the disabilities under which Britist Jand other Third Power nationals and their trading and shipping interests have been suffering in China, and that will also be a manifestation of the possibility of solving mutual difieulties between our country and Japar by" patient negotiation."
As a result of the agreement, barrieades around the British and French Concessions at Tlenisin are being re-
About one-tenth of the total amount lof silver deposited in Chinese banks shall be used for the humanitarian purpose of relieving distress among. the" famine-stricken population North China, while the balance shall remain under seal in the banks until London, June 20. its ultimate disposal is decided later.
Details of the agreement on Tientsin between Great Britain and Japan show that police arrangements. provide for closer ce-operation between the British municipal administration and the local Japanese authorities in cases against persons in whose erie minal activities the latter are interested, "This settlement of the problem," Mr. Butler stated, "has received the assent of the Chinese Government, "Circulation of Chinese national currency" will continue within the British municipal area, Federal Reserve Bank notes have, however, for some time past, circulated side by Side with the national currency.
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