"Tokyo, May 5.
The British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, called on Mr. Masayuki Tani, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, on Saturday morning. The interview lasted about two hours.
Basic agreement of views on the long-pending Tientsin issue, with special reference to problems regarding the maintenance of peace and order in the concessions and the transfer of silver, was reached in the conference, according to the "Nichi Nichi." Memoranda on the matter, the paper declares, will be formally signed by Japan, Great Britain and France.
As for the problem regarding the maintenance of peace and order in the concessions at Tientsin, a basic agreement was reached between Mr, Hachiro Arita, then Foreign Minister in the Hiranuma Cabinet, and the British Ambassador in a conference at Tokyo last year, Regarding the silver question, the lehi Nichi" continues, the British Government seems to have conducted negotiations with the Chungking Government and France, and completed necessary "arrangements with them.
The French Government has completely agreed to the British formula, the paper adds.—Reuter,
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