Nanking, June 5.
Coneentration of Central' government troops along the borders of Fukien, Kiangsi, and Kweichow, as reported by Japanese news agencies, was vehemently refuted by a spokes man of the Ministry of Wat to-day.
The major portion of the Central government troops, the spokesman pointed out when interviewed representative of Central News is at present massed in the north-west and along the Szechuen and Yunnan borders, being busily engaged Communist suppression work.
Rumours emanating from Japanese sources concerning the establishment of an independent government in the south-west and a declaration of wi fon Nanking were branded by the spokesman as malicious fabrications.
Furthermore, the spokesman added, the much reported manifesto said to wye been issued by the South-west has as a matter of fact not been received in Nanking—Central News.
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