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The Chinese Legation to the Department of State
The Chinese Legation has this morning received the following telegram from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking:
Dr. Lo Wen-kan, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphatically denied the press reports that the Chinese Government contemplated entering into direct negotiations with Japan. It was pointed out that the whole Sino-Japanese dispute being now adjudicated at Geneva, direct negotiations were clearly out of the question. Chinese authorities considered the current rumors as emanating from Japanese sources.