Tokyo Foreign Office Has No Knowledge of Reports Tokyo, Nov. 15.
"The Foreign Office spokesman said here to-day that he had not been informed of any discussion between Gen. Iwant Matsui, head of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in the Shanghai area, and Admiral Sir Charles Little, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Station, regarding possible terms of a truce in the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Meanwhile it was understood that conditions remained unchanged under which Japan would listen to any approaches regarding direct mediation in the Far Eastern conflict.—
The Powers with important interests in the Far East and the Pacific, the journal states, will naturally take appropriate, perhaps concerted, measures to defend them.
arily cheap victories, "The concludes, may prove cally too dear if they win permanently for Japan a deep suspicion in the greater part of Europe and America, The "News-Chronicle" in an editorial to-day, recalls the recent words of Col|Henry L. Stimson, former United States Secretary of State: "China's principal need is not that something should be done to help her. but that outside nations should cease helping the enemy. It is greatly to be hoped, the journal adds. that these words will be taken io heart by the vast, numbers of Americans who share Col. Stimson's view.—Reuter.
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