Nanking, Sept. 12.
Replying to an inquiry from General Chang Hsueh-liang regard ing the reported breakdown of negotiations between General Chianse Tso-ping, Chinese Minister in Berlin. and the Soviet. representative, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the latest telegram received from General Chiang, dated the 1011; instant, reports slow progress of the negotiations, intimating, how ever, that with the arrival of the Foreign Affairs, M. Litvinoff, at Geneva, more satisfactory results may be, expected in due course—Ta Chung.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.