Washington, Oct, 12, The State Departme: announced to-day that the United Siates had not. been asked by any signatory of the Nine-Power Treaty, which guarantees the territorial and administrative integrity of China, to join ina protest against the alleged Japanese demands on China, 'The statement followed report in a Japanese newspaper that Great Britain hod taken the initiative in such' a move, Th Feport had officially been denied in London earlier in the day—Reuter,
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