Authorized Statement On Tientsin Issued London, June 16.
The following authorized semiofficial view of the Tientsin incident vas given here today:
"British circles cannot but take a serious view of the futher Japanese demands made in connection with the Tientsin affair and which raise the widest issues affecting the rights of all those powers having treaty rights in China. They would mean the abandonment, under threat of force, of the policy which the British Government has followed in the past. It is still hoped that the Japanese authorities may not maintain their refusal to give further consideration to the proposals which are being made to localize the incident, but if unhappily the new demands foreshadowed by official Japanese sources in North China should be persisted in, then it must be said at once that an extremely serious situation will arise and that the British Government will have to consider what immediate and active steps they they can take for the protection of British interests in China."
King and Queen Leave Canada for England
Demands Expanded After a triumphant tour of Canada and the United States, the King and Queen sailed for England This declaration came as a climax Thu sday, being given a rousing send-off. Scenes such as this endeared them to the Canadian to a lengthy statement on the entire people as the King and Queen at Ottawa, after unveiling the memorial to Canade's war dead
Tientsin incident, in which it was formally mized with the Canadian er-Servicemer who attended the ceremony. stressed that the original question was the handing over of four Chinese claimed by the Japanese authorities on a murder charge.
Military Conference "The Japanese authorities consistently refused to furnish any
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