To the Editor of the "Norta-Caixa Dairy News."
Srr,—A paragraph in an article entitled '"Japanese-American War Rumours" from your Peking correspondent which appeared in the "North China Daily News" of the 25th instant, to the effect that "in the Japanese Legation it is explained sotto voce to Chinese callers that the British mercantile community is responsible for the dissemination of all the war gossip", having been brought to the notice of the Japanese Legation in Peking, I am authorized to state that nobody in the Legation has offered any such explanation either publicily_or privately, nor has such an idea been ever conceived by the Japanese Legation.
I am, ete., K. Yamasaxr, Consul-General for Japan.
Shanghai, January 30.
Fesrcary 5, 19219.
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