Tokyo, May 21.
Authoritative Japanese sources here yesterday scouted Moscow and New York reports that Japanese circles had proposed that the United States mediate in the Sino-Japanese war.
It was unthinkable, they said, that Japan would make such proposals to the United States in view of the past attitude of America toward Japan, Such proposals, they said, would contradict the recent statements of Mr. Kumatara Honda, Japanese Ambassador to Nanking rejecting Third Power mediation.
Observers here, therefore, believed the' reports, which were widely heralded in Washington, were entire-speculative.
The United Press learned from reliable reports that rumours that Japanese-American negotiations had started last week in Tokyo were untrue.—United Press.
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