Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1931, The Far East, Volume III

793.94/1940

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation^41a

[Nanking,] September 22, 1931.

Today’s Rengo report from Tokyo stating that the Japanese Government has decided to accept the Chinese Government’s formal proposal for the formation of a Sino-Japanese Joint Investigation Committee is not true.

The Chinese Government has never made such a proposal, formal or informal.

1. Copy of telegram handed by the Chinese Chargé to Mr. Ransford S. Miller of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, September 23.