TIENTSIN DISPUTE.
SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED. TOIvIO, May 5. After a two-liour conference the British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) and the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Tani) reached a basic agreement over the Tientsin^ dispute. Britain, France and Japan ywill shortly be signing a memorandum of agreement providing the terms for restoring and maintaining order in the Tientsin foreign area. The dispute between Japan and Britain and France over the foreign concessions at Tientsin (North China) lias been in existence for about a year and ranged around a series of points including the control of Chinese silver currency, the seizure of four Chinese suspected of murder by the British authorities, and the boundaries of the concessions. Last year an acute stage was reached when British and American subjocts’ at, Tientsin were subjected by■ the Japanese to many indignities. *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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136TIENTSIN DISPUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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