The Archive · 1939

Tokyo Conversations

No Agreement Reached on Dismissal of Anti-Japan Employees in Concession, Surrender of Suspects

Tokyo, July 27.

NABLE to reach complete agreement on the thorny question of ce-operation in the maintenance of peace and order in Tientsin, British and Japanese delegates to the conversations here resumed their plenary round-table talks at 10.15 o'clock this morning.

The full session, the fourth since Monday, was preceded by a committee meeting and a gathering of high officials steering the course of the conversations.

F.R.B. Notes Fluctuate Violently Tientsin, July 27.

Notes of the Federal Reserve Bank underwent violent fluctuations today.

After opening at 92 for 100 Chinese national dollars at 9 am., the rate strengthened to 89 at 11 a.m., and then made a spectacular drop to 98 at 1 p.m. Later, it recovered again to 95.

News of Washington's action in abrogating the American-Japanese Commercial Treaty arrived too late to have any marked effect on the market.—Reuter.

Subject.

"Are representations being made about the extension of the blockade policy to Canton?" Mr. Albert Alexander, Labour member for the Hills-borough division of Sheffield, wanted to know.

Mr. Butler replied that the whole of this subject was under considera-"tion.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account