Delivered at Tokyo: Lengthy and Somewhat Ambiguous Tokyo, Aug. 17.
Though a copy of Nanking's second Note to Japan was presented at the Foreign Office yesterday, th contents will not be made public till tthe original reaches Peking, to which. place it had been mailed.
The newspapers here publish various alleged versions of the contents, all seemingly based on intel ligent anticipation, but the Foreign Office denies their authenticity and withholds from comment, beyond stating that the Note is lengthy and Somewhat ambiguously worded, for which reason it might possibly leave room for negotiations although Japan's attitude towards abrogation Yemains unaltered.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.