JAPAN AND CHINA.
NO ULTIMATUM.
SENSATIONAL STORY DENIED
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PEKIN, September 28.
The Japanese Legation denies the ultimatum story, and states that Chang Sun apologised to-day. while the other demands were also satisfied.
CHANG-SUN'S APOLOGY
CEREMONY AT NANKIN
(Received September 29, 11.40 p.m.) PEKIN, September 29.
A bodyguard of fifty cavalry accompanied General Chang-Sun to the consulate at Nankin in tho morning, when he apologised'. Eight hundred of Chang-Sun's troops, marched in the afternoon to the consulate and presented arms, their commander saluting the Consul, while the Japanese troops stood, to attention.
It is believed that the British Consul induced the Japanese to accept this compromise instead of forcing ChangSun to apologise at the head of his troops.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16358, 30 September 1913, Page 8
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