Peiping, July 39.
"it is all over, everything is settled," was the cheerful comment. tone "heard in foreign circles here when late on Sunday night a Jepanese news-agency gave out that ~the Chinese had changed their minds at the ast moment and had accepted the demands of the Kwantung Army. [On the very next day, however, both sides were emphatic in their assertions that, after all, nothing had been elfed; the Chinese saying that Gen. 'Sung Cheh-yuan had merely exchanged, mutual apologies with the Japanese commander, and the Japanese assert~ ing that mere verbal acceptance, if had' been given, would not be' con-, sidered satisfactory by. themselves.
Sino-Japanese crises in North China all tend to run to type, and those us who were in Peiping in 1935 the time of the Ho-Umetsu Agree; ment ought to have been able to foresee whet lines the present negotiations were likely to take, In Jaetual fact, the sequence of events the deepest secrecy; refusal of the Chinese side to sign and 'a sudden Jafler that the Japanese were asserting that the Chinese had accepted all their demands, and Chinese swearing by all that was holy that, they hed conceded nothing. Everything just as in the present crisis,
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