China's tactics in her present strug-We against Japan may undergo a complete change in the near future. As the result of an important military conference attended by General Chiang Kai-shek and other leading commanders, just concluded here, it is understood that the Chinese High Command may accept the Report Not Yet Complete German Mediation "In the course of the discussion," the statement continues, "M. yan Zeeland summarized the results of the investigations which he had been conducting during the past year. It was agreed that M. van Zeeland should now complete his report, and he anticipated that it would be ready for presentation to the French and British Governments in the course of the next fortnight.
"M, van Zeeland, so far as he was concerned, agreed that the report could be published as soon as the French and British Governments hat Berlin, Jan, 8.
Statements appearing in the British press suggesting that German mediation in the Far East has reached a "mature" stage, and also that Herr Hitler is seriously worried by the war in China, fearing that Japan will be weakened by lengthy hostilities. are described in competent circles here as "rather exaggerated."
German official circles, however, do not deny Germany's great interest im a speedy cessation of hostilities. The German Ambassa-had an opportunity of considering it."
"The Belgian statesman went to Downing Street at noon. He lunched with Mr, Chamberlain and left just before 4 o'clock, He is probably returning to Brussels on Saturday, "Mr. Chamberlain will spend the week-end at Chequers, "The Times" Comment dors in Tokyo and Hankow, they add, are certainly making all efforts to this end.
"The German efforts," say Chinese circles in an interview with Reuter, "have no chance of succeeding as Japan's demands respecting the anti-Comintern Pact are not acceptable to China."—Reuter.
M. van Zeeland's visit to Rome before Christmas, together with his Conversations with Mr. Chamberlain, Should enable him to submit a report whose principles had been communicated to the governments most directly concerned end on which some measure of agreement had already been reached, says the Political Correspondent of "The Times."
This justifies the hope, the correspondent adds, that the report will not contain an academic but a practical (proposal for solving some of the most pressing difficulties of the present day.—Reuter,
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