Berlin, Jan, 19 This morning, a competent German authority after an exhaustive consideration of the Japanese communications regarding the German mediation action in the Far East declared:
In the course of conversations that took place at the end of October, 1937, between the German Ambassadors in Nanking and Tokyo on one side, and the competent government authorities in these cities on the other, the wish was expressed by the governments of both parties to the Confu that Germany should collaborate in an attempt to reach an agreement between the two disputing countries.
"To serve the interests of peace, whose re-establishment Germany de-Sires as ardently as all the rest of verid, the German Government ed that it ought to place its services at the disposal of the two countries with both of which Ger-
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