Tokyo, Aug. 19.
Although the National: Government of China at Nanking was quite free to open negotiations with the Chung king regime, and while he did not know "what was going on behind the curtains." the spokesman for the For-ign Office at the regular press conference today declared that the Jap-nese Government has not. in' the Teest changed its determination not deal with the Chiang Kai-shek administration Successful conclusion of the us in Nanking for the basic igulating relations between and "Japan, the spokesman sxpeeted "in a short la, Japan to ngo Ministers Tokyo, An 18 Japan and Australia wil exchange ministers, the Japanese Foreign OMmee announced at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The first Australian Minister to Japan will be Sir John Grieg Latham, present Chief justice of the Come
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