The Vice-Minister of Fors Affairs, Mr. Wu Ching, interviewed by Revtor this morning, declared that there was no truth in the report of a loan being negotiated beween the South Menchuria Railway and Marshal Chang" Tve-lin, the Goneralissino.
With regard to the land leases in the Chinese Eastern Railway one {in which connection Britain, the United States, Japan and France had protested against the action of the Ghinese authorities in North 'Manchuria' towards. lease-holders), 'Mr. "Wu recalled. that the lands in the' vicinity of the Railway were originally leased to, Russians, from had obtained shore "The Chinese wore now trying take back the Railway and wished that the transfer of the leases be completed within twenty to thirty years, but the Japanese were not Yeady. to agree to this, Although the protest had been signed jointly by the four Powers, Japan was the only party really concerned and the Note was duo to their influence. The manner in which the Note had been drafted showed the real authorship.
Mr. Wa went on to say that the conference at Poking during the hina New Year largely dacuased paration of the civil and mili-fay sina of the provincass After that Marshals Sun Chuan-fang and Chang Chung-chang returned Shantung in connection with this matter under instructions to ascer tain the exact number of troops under their control and the required to support them, Marshal Sun had now returned to Peking to report accordingly. He had also come partly in view of the fact that the Nanking conference recently de. cided to prosecute the war against the North, Sun would be the first to bear the brunt of this and hence ho desired to prosont his plans to meet the menace, and to'diseuss his own and the Genoralissimo's suggested measures—Reuter.
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