Well-informed Washington quarters today discounted current reports that the Japanese Government, through an unofficial emissary, had approached the United States and attempted to seek mediation in the Sino-Japanese hostilities in exchange for an extension of United States financial credits to Japan, This Japanese businessman promised Mr. Hull that he would use his influence with the Japanese Government to urge it to invite United States mediation if the State Department would make an effort to obtain approval for United States loans to Japanese business firms, they added.
The informed quarters, however, emphasized that such a plan was arently impossible and that the buying scheme" was not considered for one moment by the State Department.—United Press,
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