"The British submarine Ursula also reports that on December 14 she sank a 6000-ton cruiser of the Köln class Tokyo, Dec. 19.
Japan was ready to pay the United States a reasonable indemnity for damage done to American interests in China during the Sino-Japanese conflict, reliable sources here declared today.
These sources claimed that Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed this readiness when he told Mrz Joseph Clark Grew, American Ambassador, yesterday that Japan had decided partially to reopen the Yangize.
Mr. Grew, these sources added, told Admiral Nomura that he would transmit Japan's attitude on this matter to Washington.—Domei.
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