Tokyo, Nov. 25.
An offer to transfer the silver stocks in the British Concession at Tientsin in exchange for the removal of the blockade is alleged by the "Miyako Shimbun" to have been made by Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, in the course of 90-minute interview yesterday with the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Masayuki Tani, The conversation, which is featured in all Japanese newspapers today, is said to have ended without substantial agreement.
During the talk, the Ambassador is reported to have expounded the views of the British Government regarding the sinking of the Terukuni Maru, officially protested against the shooting at the Imperial Airways liner Dardanus over Waichow Island on November 8, and raised the question. of the Chinese silver stocks in Tientsin.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.