Peiping, Apr. 20.
Japanese military requirements will.|deciae the Lifting or the strengthen-[French and the British Concessions ing of the blockade against th
-4 liens, Japanese military circles here said today commenting on the "upending* conclusion of an Anglovapanése accord on the ten-month-old dispute in the North China port.
The isolation of the concessions, ihey pointed out, was carried out because of a strategic requirement that made the adoption of such drastic measures necessary for the attainment of the Japanese military objectives in China.
The disputed issues at Tientsin, however, had been practically settled, they admitted. This was attributed by Japanese circles to the acceptance by the British' Government of "Japan's rightful demands.
"The settlement of the Tientsin dispute, they continued, would not divert the: Japanese authorities from their "immutable policy to drive from China all third Power interests engaged: in exploiting this country."—Domei.
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