Tokyo, Aug. 21.
THE agreement on general qu gestions forming the background of the Tientsin issue, wh was reached on July 22 between Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, and Mr, Hachiro Arit the Foreign Minister, stands even if the Anglo-Japanese conference breaks down, according to well-informed observers. The same quarters declare that full observance of the agreement will be sought by the Japanese might arise in future, in any situation which will or Interest at this morning's press conference at the Foreign Ofleo Jeentred on whether" the Anglo-Japanese Conference would be Fe-
Asked whether the Anglo-Japanese negotiations had been ruptured, the [spokesman replied" do not find single word about termination of the conversations in the statement made by the British and the Japanese. T can hardly say anything whether the negotiations will be. resumed. /But the situation will be clarified a Ute later."
Referring to the British statement, the spokesman declared that it con: {tained a paragraph reading as f0l-flows: "In addition to proposals on police matters, the Japanese Govern-Ment has put forward certain. proposals which include the entoreement by the British authorities of regulation prohibiting the uso of the Chinese national currency within the British Concession at Tientsin, and the removal of certain silver reserves {from the Concession at tientsin the Diplomatic Quarter at Peiping.
The spokesman ssid that this al Jegation" was not true. Jupam he stated, hed #0 far never claimed the Femoval of Chinese silver holdings from the Loi serves from the British Concession Tientsin. °T do not say anything steps which might be taken by [Japan in' future," he added.
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