MARKING TIME

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 9

MARKING TIME

INTERNATIONAL WORLD

NO MOVE FOR PRESENT

United Press Association—By Electric Tele.

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NEW YORK, 6th February. Diplomacy marked time to-day . as officials awaited further developments of the Shanghai situation in the hopes that the International Settlement would not become further involved, says the "New York Times" Washington correspondent.

The Japanese, British, and German Ambassadors conferred with the State Department, but their discussions are described as possessing no particular significance.

Mr. H. L. Stimson, Secretary of State, denied London reports that he had sent a now protest to Japan, and the State Department representatives asserted that no communications of any sort went forward on Friday. Sir Eonald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, informed reporters that he thought that further suggestions might go forward fairly rapidly, but American officials suggested that such a move niigh* not occur for as long as a week, and gave tho distinct impression that considerable study was felt to.be necessary before the expression of counter-proposals in reply to the Japanese answer to the earlier pence overtures.

Reports of a Russian mobilisation at Vladiyoatoct and of a general Japanese mobilisation are discounted in view of the lack of official confirmation. Mr. K. Debuclii, the Japanese Ambassador denied any knowledge of tho reported Japanese mobilisation.

State Department officials have expressed concern at the reported capture by tho Chinese near Harbin of an American journalist, Edward Hunter but it is reported that he is sa£» is Harbin.