Chungking, Sept. 21.
Japanese reports on the departure of Mr. Chu Cheng, President of the Judicial Yuan, for itongkong, and the alleged kidnapping of General Lung. Yun, Governor of Yunnan Province, are characterized here as marking ow Japanese "rumour offensive."
Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang, Secretary-General of the Central Kuomintang, declared that Mr. Chu received members of the Judicial Yuan on September 15 at his residence, also! attended a weekly memorial meeting September 16. The Japanese reported that_he left secretly for "Hongkong on September 14.
Regarding the Japanese report that General Chiang Kai-shek flew to Kunming and took General Lung Yun by plane to an unknown destination, it pointed out here that General Chiang has not left Chungking for Several months and is still attending to his duties as usual—Reuter, Manchoukuo, N. China Want Chinese Labourers
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