Settlement of the Tientsin silver question, which had been pending for more than a year and a half, would also better relations between Japan and Great Britain, observers stated.
News dispatches reaching here declared that the settlement of the silver question was imminent. The British Foreign Office asserted, however, that no official report on the matter had arrived from Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan, and the office has refrained from confirming the news reports.
News dispatches originating at Shanghai and credited to D.N.B. German news agency, declaring that the British Government had proposed a railway loan to Chungking in exchange for the settlement of the Tientsin silver question were described by Foreign Office sources as Chinese propaganda.—Domei,
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