RUMOURS DENIED.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 15

RUMOURS DENIED.

BRITISH ATTITUDE TO JAPAN'S AIMS. SUPPORT FOR LYTTON REP.ORT. (BRITISH Of FICUt, WIRBLE3S.) RUGBY, February 2. An official denial of certain reports which have beon circulated at Geneva regarding the British attitude towards the Sino-Japunes© dispute is given by tho Foreign Office, which says there is no truth whatever in reports published by some newspapers from their Genova correspondents that the British delegation is using pressure to secure tiie deletion of the reference to nonrecognition of Manchukuo from the draft report which is being prepared lur presentation to the League Assembly. , ' Another report current is that the Japanese evacuation of Shanghai was partly due to an agreement between Rritain and Japan, under which Britain, it was represented, undertook to support Japan in Manchuria in return for the evacuation of Shanghai. This is stated to be equally and entirely devoid of truth. A third report, that his Majesty's Government was working to secure a free hand for Japan in Manchuria, in return for a free hand in Tibet for itself, also is flatly denied. Sir John Simon made it quite plain at Geneva that in the event of conciliation failing, his Majesty's Government would be prepared to sec the Lyltoii Report adopted.