Dr. Hans Luther's Tientsin Interview Mis-stated Shanghai, Nov. 5.
The Domei News Agency on November 1 published a report from /Tientsin stating that Dr. Hans Luther, noted German economist and former Chancellor of Germany, had declared. fo a group of newspapermen atthe [German Consulate-Geneval at Tien= isin, that "Germany will work jeloso collaboration with Japan in: order to realize the economic develop= ment of North China."
This report Is most emphatically refuted by official German. quarters in China," it is stated that in. the course of the interview in question, nothing of this kind was. said and that the Japanese re} therefore {to be considered a pure in
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