Tientsin, July 16.
An emphatic denial of the reports that Lieut.-Gen, Kiyoshi Katsuki, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in North China, had met Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, Commander of the Twenty-Ninth Army, yesterday, was issued to-day by the Japanese military authorities here.
The only recent interview between high Chinese and Japanese officials, they said, was that between Major-Gen, Gun Hashimoto, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Garrison, and Gen Chang Tzu-chung, Mayor of Tientsin, over Wednesday night.
No agreement of any sort, the officials said, had been reached at this or any other meeting within the past two days nor have any fresh demands been presented, Japan, it was emphasized, still adheres to the agreement for the settlement of the Lukouchiao Incident eached in Peiping on July 11 -Specifically denied were the reports that an agreement had been reached for the reorganization of the Hopei-Charhar Political Council, e demilitarization of. the Tientsin-
Peiping Railway and the withdrawal of the 20th Army to Paotingfu.
No such demands, it was stressed, have been presented to the Chinese authorities here—Domei,
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