According to the "Yomiuri Shimbun," the conversation merely emphasized the divergence of British and Japanese viewpoints, and the newspaper claims that Sir Robert Craigie is maintaining a strong attitude, "contrary to the intention of his home government," until the relations between Japan and America and between Japan and Russia can be foreseen more accurately.
In reply to the alleged offer by Sir Robert Craigie regarding the Tientsin silver, Mr. Tani, the "Miyako Shimbun" says, asserted that the "blockade of the British and French Concessions was carried out through military necessity for the maintenance of peace and order."
"The issue." he is said to have added, "should be treated separately from the silver and other issues. though it was possible that all could he solved simultaneously, though differing in conception."
The protest over the Dardanus incident is said to have been rejected by the Vice-Minister, who pointed out that a state of hostilities existed in China which. on the British side, was recognized under the Arita-Craigie Agreement.—Reuter.
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