Brussels, Nov. 10.
To dissipate various rumours about his visit to Germany, Gen. Chiang Poli stated to-day that his journey was to state the real position of China in the Sino-Japanese conflict. There was no truth, he said, in the report that mediatory efforts between third parties outside the Brussels Conference were being considered by China.
China, he continued, for the past four or five years had negotiated directly with Japan with regrettable and fruitless results. Therefore, he added, the Chinese Government believed that direct negotiations would not settle the present conflict, but would afford another opportunity for Japan "to impose unreasonable terms upon China—terms as unacceptable to the Nine-Power signatories as 10
China."—Reuter.
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