Economic questions were outside the scope of the agreement on basic principles reached between Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign a Sir Robert sador, the British delegates were said "to have maintained at yesterday's conference.
Japanese army authorities, on the contrary, held that a solution of economic questions is necessary in the maintenance of peace and order. The peace maintenance question could not be solved unless the questions of a currency ban and delivery of silver were satisfactorily settled at the same time, army authorities contended.
British authorities were accused of displaying a lack of good faith in transferring silver specie out of Shanghai and other places since the
delegates should be on guard against of the negotiations. Jüpansse the future attitude of the British authorities, Japanese army, authorities warned, according to informed observers.
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