TO-DAY'S TOKYO TALKS EXPECTED TO PROVE "VERY DIFFICULT"
Tokyo, To-day.
To-day's session of the Anglo-Japanese negotia- tions in Tokyo will probably decide the fate of the talks, according to well-informed circles. That Japan is not over-optimistic is indicated by the comment of a semi-official spokesman that to-day's conference will prove "very difficult."
CRITICISM
OF S.M.C.
BY JAPANESE
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY.
A JAPANESE ARMY SPOKES-
British circles intimate that there will be no giving way on the question of surrender of the Chin- ese silver, held in the Tientsin Concession.
This demand will almost cer- tainly be insisted upon by the Japanese, and the possibility of the talks breaking down on this point is being freely canvassed.
POLICE AGREEMENT During yesterday's meetings, MAN YESTERDAY CRITICISED "satisfactory progress," according THE ATTITUDE OF THE AU-to the Japanese spokesman, THORITIES OF THE INTERNA- made in the matter of control of activities in the TIONAL SETTLEMENT, WHOM anti-Japanese HE ACCUSED OF TOLERATING ANTI-JAPANESE INTRIGUES IN THE SETTLEMENT,
Tientsin Concession.
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Britain is reported to have con- ceded several points on the matter of policing the Concession, though there is no indication of the actual terms of the agreement reached.- Our Own Correspondent.
The spokesman declared that the Chungking Government was en- deavouring through its emissaries to recruit soldiers among the Chin- esé unemployed and that · Chinese agitators had reached Shanghai the spokesman, that in both from Hong Kong in order to carry the International Settlement un anti-Japanese agitation.
the
There was evidence, according to Ocean.
centre of activity.
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One question concerning the United States as well as Bri- tain is the Japanese desire that Britain support the Japanese- sponsored currency in North China and cease support of the Chinese national dollar.
Even should the British Gov- ernment feel disposed to reach accommodation with Japan, which seems improbable, writes the correspondent, it would be unable to do so without the as- sent of the other Powers di- rectly concerned, which include France as well as the United States.
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