Tokyo, June 30.
The Japanese naval blockade of Foochow will be postponed for a lew days in compliance with the request of the British Navy, Japanese reports said today.
H.M.S. Delight and H.M.B. Daring, the two British destroyers anchored near Foochow, left the Min River by noon yesterday to avoid being bottled-up. The British Ni however, requested that construction of certain parts of the boom be re-farded for a few days to enable the British vessels to return to Foochow the murder of Mr.
Chen Shi-kang, Customs Commissioner. He thought it was essential to deal with the Tientsin situation quite frankly.
Negotiations Open on July 6
Negotiations for a settlement of the Anglo-Japanese dispute in Tientsin are expected to open here about July 6, according to the Japanese press.
"Spot" Tientsin issues, it is stated, will be the subject of negotiation between the Japanese Consul in Tientsin, Mr. Tanaka, a Japanese mil lary representative and the British Superintending Consul in Tientsin. Major G. A. Herbert, Both Mr. Tanaka and Major Herbert are now en route to Tokyo for the negotiations.
At the same time, Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador in Tokyo, and Mr. Sotomatsu Kato, Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Manchoukuo, representing the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. H. Arita, will take up the "basic Chinese issues which have markedly affected Anglo-Japanese relations, thereby leading up to the Tientsin imbroglio."
In this connection the "Asahi Shimbun" esserts'that the Japanese army is "determined to secure Britain's abandonment of her belligerency against Japan based upon a reorientation of Britain's basic policy and its sure, concrete enforcement ju the whole of North China."
—Reuter.
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