Peiping, Dec. 24.
Reports current in foreign trading circles of an impending discriminatory revision of the Maritime Customs impert tariff were emphatically denied by a spokesman for the "Provisional Government" here today. He asserted the reports were based "on con-lecture, not on facts.
Japanese officials also professed to have no knowledge of a reported move by the Joint Commission of the "Reformed" and "Provisional Governments" to retaliate against British and American financial assistance to the regime of Gen, Chiang Kai-shek by raising import duties against goods originating from those two countries.
Strong exception was taken by Chinese and Japanese officials to the report broadcast to the world by a German news service under a London date line alleging that the "Provisional Government" had issued a decree "forbidding imports into North China of all non-Japanese goods." This report, made public by the agency in Shanghai and other points, was "killed" by the agency's representative here.
Never Broadcast The report, as published in Shanghai, stated that "this new decree" had been announced by wireless.
Chinese officials in charge of broadcasting emphatically denied that such information had been put on the air. Also denied was the allegation contained in the German report that the "Provisional Government" had announced at the same time "that in future the money issued by them is payment for foreign-
Meantime, the third plenary meeting of the Joint Commission of the Peiping and Nanking regimes, se duled to be held here tomorrow, was postponed until Janua The failure of the Nanking delegation to arrive, owing to a snowstorm in Tsingtao that held up the aeroplane in which it was travelling was. blamed for the postpónement.—Domei.
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