Nanking, Feb. 10.
In view of persistent reports that a loan of Yen 5,000,000 is under negotiation between Chang Tso-and the South Manchuria Railway, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Acting Minister of, Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, has sent a strong protest_to the Japanese authori against the consummation of the reported loan, The following is a translation of the official despatch:—"On January 27, 1928, it was reported in the Shanghai newspapers that Yang Vu-ting, under instructions of the Northern militarist, Chang Tso-lin, had, through Japanese, approached the South Manchuria Railway for a loan, and hat Mr. Yamamoto, Director-General of the said Railway, view-
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