The Archive · 1939

Report Not Denied

Tokyo, Nov. 25.

The British Embassy said today it cannot say whether the "Miyako Shimbun" report alleging Britain's willingness to transfer Chinese silver stored in the Tientsin British Concession In exchange for the lifting fof the blockade was true oF not.

Such a proposition may have been Alscussed, the British Embassy said when asked fo comment on the report the Japanese journal.

The talks between the British Amb-sador. Sir Robert Craigie, and Mr. Masayuki Tani, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, were strictly con-Adential and it was not known how

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