Britain's refusal in May to surrender these men precipitated the June 14 Japanese blockade against the British Concession in tientsin, On the eve of the start of the blockade, Britain proposed to Tokyo that a tribunal " comprising bue Briton, tone Japanese and one rman, should judge reply was to launch the blockade and present Britain with demands for British ce-operation in abolishing Chinese currency in favour of the Japanese-controlled Federal Reserve Bank notes; sui render of the £800,000 worth of [Chinese-owned silver stored in foreign banks in the British and French Concessions; ce-operation with Japanese police and the admission of Japanese policy into the British Concession to help oxter~ minate Chinese terrorists plotting against the Japanese and aid in the feonfiseation of all anti-Japanese The Anglo-Japanese negotiations culminating in the Arita-Craigie Tomula on July 31 marked the next stage in the conflict and embodied British recognition of Japan's re-[sponsibility for maintaining peace fand order in occupied areas of (China.
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