Parleys Denied; Japanese Say Move Unacceptable London, Mar, 29.
Japan would refuse any British offer of mediation at present in the Sino-Japanese war, a responsible Japanese spokesman told the United Press here today.
British authorities simultaneously denied reports that the Chinese Ambassador to London, Mr. Quo Tat-chi, had requested British mediation curing his conference on Monday with the British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax.
The Japanese spokesman here said Britain was too deeply involved in China to be an impartial peace-maker znd pointed specifically to Britain new stabilization credits to China.
Arti-British feeling in Japan is so high, the spokesman said, that British intercession in China would be "utterly unacceptable."
Foreign diplomatic quarters here believe that the forthcoming conferences in Shanghai between the British Ambassadors to Japan and China was being arranged primarily because of British anxiety to relieve the ruinous effects of Japan's closure cí the Yangtze and Pearl rivers, and ears that Japan will employ Gerrany's aggressive methods to gain control of the International Settlement n Shanghai.
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