Tientsin, Aug. 7.
exclusive interview granted to Transocean, General Homma, com= mander of the Japanese garrison In Tientsin, stated that the question of topi currency is the most dimeult one facing the Tokyo negotiators, Asked whether a compromise was possible ahuwle Britain ofl6i WO sup press the Chinese national currency within the Tientsin Concession while At the same time retaining the sliver reposing in. banks, in the. con until the end of the hostilities, eral Homma replied in the negative, Admitting that $48,000,000. stored In the concessions constituted little support for the £230,000,000 Federal Toserve Bank notes now circulating in North China, the general insisted that this silver botonged to the Pel-ping "Provisional Government" and that its return was a matter of polit
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