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The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 19—12:58 a.m.]
263. Reuter from Nanking, 18th:
“An emphatic declaration that there will be no negotiations or compromise with Japan was made by Lo Wen-kan on his return from the North today. He said Chinese people should do their utmost to protect national territory and regain lost provinces while the nations or [of?] world should assume their moral and legal obligations involved by adoption of report of Committee of Nineteen by League Assembly. He added that General Chiang Kai-shek fully supported Government’s policy.”
Reuter from Tokyo, 18th:
“Speaking in Diet today Count Uchida, Foreign Minister, said departure from Peiping of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang would prove favorable for solution of outstanding Sino-Japanese problems. He emphasized that Japanese and Manchukuo troops would not enter North China unless Chinese resort to unwarranted provocations.”