Tokyo, Apr. 22.
Both British and Japanese officials today declined either to confirm or deny persistent Japanese newspaper reports that the proposed Tientsin agreement between Britain and Japan includes using a large amount of the silver deposits in Tientsin for the purchase of Australian and Canadian Wheat -to feed the distressed population of North China.
Progress was being made towards the solution of the remaining questions in Tientsin, both groups of officials stated, but both denied that an actual settlement was as near as present Japanese newspaper reports claim. The belief is prevalent here that the present delay in reaching a settlement of the long drawn out Tientsin affair is due to various aspects of the European war situation.
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