'AMERICA, Nanking, Jan. 11.
The Chinese reply to the American Note invoking the Nine Power Treaty in connection with the situation in Manchuria will be handed to-night to the American Consul-General in Nanking for transmission to the United States Government, according to reports from reliable sources. The official copy of the reply is in Chinese and is said. to be a very lengthy document.
While the contents of the reply have not yet been divulged, it is learned that Chinese " independent. civil; ministrations have been installed at} sll points between Chinchow and Kowrpangize, strategic centres on the Peking-Mukden Railway, according
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