Nanking, June 29.
The report {rom Peiping of yesterday's date to the effect that the United States Embassy would be formally removed from Peiping.to Nanking in August, was to-day characterized by Mr, Willys R, Peck, Embassy Counsellor, as being not entirely correct, Mr. Peck explained that though new buildings for the Embassy are H.M. Embassy to Move to Nanking London, June 29.
An announcement that the British Embassy, in Peiping would be removed to Nanking, was made in the House of Commons to-day by Viscount Cran borne, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to query by Mr, C, M, Patrick, Unionist. member for the Tavistock division of Devon, Viscount Cranborne declared that H. M. Government consider: fed that the time had now come for this, change, and they In. fended, subject to the provision of necessary funds by Parliament, to remove the Embassy to Nanking as soon og fitting premises could be erected there.
HM, Charge d'Affaires, he added, was now negotiating (or the requisition of a suitable site Nanking—Reuter. now under construction here and are to be completed in the middle of August ata site to the west of the Drum Tower, the seat of the Embassy But remain" "unchanged.—Centeat
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