RUMOURS DENIED.
CHINESE STATEMENT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. The following telegram has been received by the Chinese Consul from Nanking:— , . “The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to-day emphatically denied rumours recently circulated at Shanghai to the effect. that Chinese troops would make use of the opportunity' of resisting the attack of the Japanese forces in the Shanghai area by forcibly taking back the International Settlement. The spokesman remarked that such rumours were apparently created by Japanese sources with the object of arousing the suspicions and fears of foreigners The Chinese military operations at Shanghai have no other object than selfdefence against the Japanese attack, and it is equally the wish of the Chinese Government as it is the desire of all the interested Powers that normal conditions in the International Settlement and the French Concession at Shanghai should be as little disturbed and as speedily as possible restored. n
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 31 August 1937, Page 7
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