Tokyo, Dec. 12.
Mr. Koreklyo Takahashi, Japan's Q0-year old Finance Minister, to-day denied the persistent rumours that he will head the new political party ex-Dected to be formed by Mr. Kiyoshi Akita, who resigned to-day from the speakership of the House of Repre-Sentatives and the Seva} narty.—Rengo.
Tokyo, Dec. 10.
'Mr. Constantin Yurenefl, Soviet Ambassador to Tokyo, to-day resum-¢d_ conversations with Mr. Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister, on the transfer of the Chinese Eastern Railway to Manchoukuo, It is under stood Mr. Yureneif' came. to. this understood the exchange rate to used in the commodity payment to Soviet Russia was given special Attention to-day—Rengo.
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