Tokyo, June 30.
"Questions in connection with military, political and economic matters regarding Tientsin will certainly be involved in the conversations," declared the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman at a press conference here this morning, in reply to a question on the forthcoming talks in Tokyo.."Some of the fundamental principles," he added, "may be touched upon."
He stated that the conversations between British and Japanese representatives regarding Tientsin would probably open towards the end of next week at the official residence of the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The spokesman emphasized that the issue was now beyond a matter of the delivery of the four Chinese alleged to have been implicated in Tientsin Japanese Ignore Parleys Tientsin, June 30.
Japanese military authorities here today announced that the already stringent traffic blockade around the British Concession would be made stricter than ever, effective tomorrow. No matter what might be the progress and outcome of the Tokyo parleys, the Japanese military authorities here were determined to intensity the searching and questioning of pedestrians and vehicles on the concession boundary, they said. New rules tightening up the blockade would be announced in detail to the Public tomorrow and be enforced immediately afterward, Japanese authorities stated.—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.