No conversations regarding the various problems affecting British policy or interests in China have taken place between Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, H. M. Ambassador to China, and Mr. Sotomatsu Kato, Japanese Ambassador-at-large, in Shanghai, an official of the British Embassy informed the "North-China Daily News" yesterday. Rumours of impending negotiations between the British Ambassador and Mr. Kate were termed as "nonsense"
Embassy official.
It will be recalled that some quarters attached great significance to the visit which Mr. Kato paid on Mr. Nelson T. Johnson shortly after the U. S. Ambassador's arrival in Shanghai. This visit was merely a courtesy Call and it was emphatically denied by authoritative sources close to the U. S. Ambassador that there was anything in the way of official conversations connected with the call,
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