The Archive · 1938

British Mediation Rumours

No Confirmation in London of Japanese Report London, Feb. 8.

The Foreign Office here has no confirmation € Japanese report that Great Britain is being approached by the Chinese National Government with a request for media between J and China.

Interviewed by Reuter to-day, Chinese Ambassador, Mr, Quo Tai-chi, said he knew nothing whatever about any such move, The report emanated from the Hongkong correspondent the "Nichi Nichi," well-known Tokyo newspaper.

The newly-appointed British Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Kerr, the correspondent cabled, was arriving in Shanghai about the middle of February "with a peace formula which is designed not only io save the face of China, but to give full consideration to' Japan's position in the Far East,"—Reuter

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