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TIENTSIN TALKS Progress Said To Have Been Made CRUX OF CONFERENCE By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 27, 1.45 a.m.) TOKIO, July 26. A three-hour plenary session today dealt with a committee’s report on the maintenance of peace and order in the Tientsin British Concession. The consideration of economic questions, which will follow, is regarded as the crux of the conference. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, reported to Cabinet that the conference is progressing smoothly. A later Tokio communique stated that progress had been made in the afternoon session, in which various questions relating to 1 ientsin and other matters were being considered. The Foreign Office spokesman, asked what bearing the Anglo-Jap-anese agreement had on the NinePower Treaty, replied that the treaty was moribund. He added, however, that Japan had never claimed sovereignty over the occupied areas.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 13
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