Tokyo, Sept. 7.
Questioned by foreign correspondents concerning the actual situation at Tientsin, a Foreign Office spokesman said today that he had the impression that the concession evacua-lion question will be settled in a friendly manner through conversations between the Japanese and Anglo-French authorities there.
A hopeful view was expressed by the spokesman for the settlement. of the situation which arose after Japanese residents started to leave the British and French Concessions in Tientsin.
A wholesale withdrawal of Japanese residents was reported to have been decided upon as a protest against alleged "non-ce-operation" on the part of the authorities of the British and French Concessions in their attitude toward the Japanese authorities in the latter's efforts to maintain peace amd
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