London, July 8. FTE British Government will resist any Japanese attempts to raise broad issues of general policy in the forthcoming Anglo-Japanese talks in Tokyo, British Government quarters said last night. The British Government, it was said, regards the negotiations, expected to begin next. week, merely as a means for settling the crisis at Tientsin where the British and French concessions have been blockaded by the Japanese army.
If Japan insists upon bringing in questions of general policy, Britain will insist that such matters cannot be discussed without the participation of the United States and France, who hold treaty rights and interests in China similar to Britain's, Britain, it-was said, is willing to guarantec: that the British Concession in Tientsin will not be used as a base for anti-Japanese activities:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.