The Archive · 1939

New Instructions Sought

London, July 29.

On account of the Anglo-Japanese disagreement in-the Tokyo talks concerning the circulation of Chinese national currency in the British Concession in Tientsin and the transfer of silver stored there, Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan, is seeking new instructions from London, according to the Diplomatic Ca: respondent of the "Daily Telegraph.

Great Britain, the correspondent adds, contends that the currency is that of the recognized Chinese Government, and that which Britain acknowledges as legal tender.

Japan holds that this impedes the establishment of the notes she is seeking to substitute for the existing currency.—Reuter.

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