Tokyo, Dec. 19.
Japan was ready to pay the United States a reasonable indemnity for damage done to American interests China during the Sino-Japanese conflict, reliable sources here declared today.
These sources claimed that Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed this readiness when he told Mr. Joseph Clark Grew, American Ambassador, yesterday that Japan "had decided partially to reopen the Yank Mr. Grew, these sources added, told Admiral Nomura" that" he would {transmit Japan's. attitude on this matter to Washington—Domel "Nevertheless," the journal con Jeludes, "this laiest development is a hopeful sign, and as such, has found fa reflection in a firmer, tendency exchange rate of the Chinese doll Reuter.
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