Dr. Hans Luthér's Tientsin Interview Mis-stated Shanghai, Nov. 5.
The Domei News Agency on November 1 published a report from Tientsin stating that Dr. Hans Luther noted German economist and former Chancellor of Germany, had declared io a group of newspapermen at the German Consulate-General at Tientsin, that "Germany will work in close collaboration with Japan in order to realize the economic development of North China This report is most emphatically refuted by official German quarters in China. It is stated that in the course of the interview in question, nothing of this kind was said and that the Japanese report is therefore to be considered a pure invention of
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