No Agreement Between Holy See and Japan Sian, Oct. 19.
Monsignor Mario Zanin, Apostolic delegate to China, to-day branded as a pure fabrication the report that the Holy See had concluded an agreement with Japan in regard to the current Sino-Japanese conflict.
An official denial of the report has been received by Monsignor Zanin from the Vatican, Ever since the outbreak of the Lukouchiao incident in North China on July 7, the Roman Catholic Church, Monsignor Zanin stated, has been in sympathy with China. Its two delegations lauding China's peace-loving spirit and its monetary contributions for the relief of Chinese wounded soldiers and refugees testify to that fact, the Apostolic delegate said—Central News.
Berlin, Oct. 19.
The necessary funds for the payment of coupon No. 54 of the f per cent. Tientsin-Pukow Railway supplementary loan of 1910 due on November 1, 1937, have been placed in the hands of the Deutsch-Asia~ tis che Bank, and the coupon will be payable in Berlin through the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank.—Trans-Ocean,
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