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modification of arrangements.

3. Silver to the value of £100,000 to be

sold to create a fund of relief.

4.

Relief measures to be administered on the

advice of experts who would be appointed by

British and Japanese Governments.

Decision

as to what further sum is required over and

above amount mentioned to be taken on the

advice of these experts.

6. British authorities to co-operate with

Japanese authorities in facilitating sale of

silver.

Vice-Minister stated that blockade

measures would at once come to an end on sig-

nature of the agreement but represented that

agreement should be recorded separately.

Sir R. Craigie advocated that we should try

to reach agreement in view of struggle going on

in Japan between advocates of a rapprochement

respectively with the Soviet Union and the

democracies.

On 4th December Sir R. Craigie had a

further interview with the Vice-Minister for

Foreign/

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