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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Chinese Legation72

Nanking, February 4, 1933.

A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Office denied categorically the report that Great Britain had proposed to the Chinese Government, through Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, a round table conference at either Nanking or Shanghai for the settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute, declaring that the report must have emanated from Japanese sources. The circulation of such reports on the eve of the League’s preparing verdict on the Manchurian question serves only to show the extreme desperation and nervousness of the Japanese at the prospect of a strong report in condemnation of Japan’s unlawful activities in Manchuria, the spokesman added.

  1. Copy of telegram transmitted to the Department by the Chinese Legation on February 4.↩