Shanghai, Sept. 28.
The emphatic denial by Chinese oMfeials of Japanese rumours that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had reached a secret understanding with the Com-/munist bandits in China; that some! leaders of the National Government Were advocating an alliance with Soviet, Russia; and that China had abandoned a projected protest to [Moscow against the decisions reached lat the. recent Congress of the Comintfern, yesterday were termed "wel-some" by a spokesman for the [Japanese Embassy. "We had heard of such rumours, but, inasmuch as we could not secure "any reliable information on the matter, we attach-fed little credence to them," the spokesman said.
"Japan being vitally interested in the maintenance of peace and order in the Far East, is naturally concerned the suppression of Communism in Asia," he continued. "This is partly cularly so at a time when vast regions of China, such "as Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, virtually /have been Sovietized and are beyond {the authority of the Notional Govern-Jment. Tu the circumstances, the Central News Agency's report, obviously sanctioned by the authorities Nanking, denying such rumours, naturally is welcome."
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