Peiping, Apr. 29.
Reiterating the Provisional Government's continued respect for the "open door" policy, officials here today emphatically denied reports of Japanese plans to institute a petro-lenin monopoly in North China Japanese interests, the officials said, ere planning to establish a concern to distribute oil in the northern provinces, but this firm would not enjoy monopolistic rights.
The Government, they declared, is extending a broad invitation to foreign concerns to expand their businesses in North China, There can be no talk of the exclusion of foreign cil interests from North China, they emphasized, for the region must ce! tinue to depend en petroleum supplied by British and American -oil companies, Not only will the Government pay full respect to vested foreign rights, th serted, but it will extend positive assistance to foreign concerns desiring to expand their storage and refining ities in North China—
Domei.
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