Reports said -to be circulating in various parts of the world regarding alleged Japanese demands on China were denied by the spokesman for the Japanese Foreign OMlce to-day. Pointing out that the Tokyo and Nanking Governments had agreed that the nature of the conversations for a readjustment of Sino-Japanese relations would not be divulged, except what appeared in joint communiques, the spokesman said he -wondered why reports based on imagination and apparently prompted by ulterior motives Were being issued abroad regarding purported Japanese demands." be= Heve these reports are being elrculated with a malicious intention to further alienate Japan and China", he said, Specifically denied by the spokes man was the report that Japan hed demanded the right to station troops fon various points along the Yangtze; autonomy for the five northern provinees; the right to edit Chinese schoolbooks to prevent anti-Japanese teachings and China's acquiescence t0 economic ce-operation of undefined character—Domel.
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