793.94/8210: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Dickover) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 2—9:10 a.m.]
202. 1. According to Domei, the Foreign Office authorities commenting upon a London report circulated by Reuter containing a purported revelation attributed to “diplomatic sources” of Japanese demands, among which was mentioned the right to station troops along Yangtze, the right to edit Chinese school texts, and autonomy of the five northern provinces, declared that the alleged demands were malicious propaganda aimed at alienating Japan and China and stated that the Consulate General at Nanking had on September 26 filed with the Chinese Foreign Office a strong protest in which it was pointed out that the spread of such reports was contrary to an arrangement between the two Governments not to reveal the contents of the negotiations.
2. Foreign Office spokesman today, according to Japan Times, announced that as the Japanese Government was conducting its negotiations with a careful attitude it had decided to despatch the director of the Asiatic Bureau of the Foreign Office to Nanking immediately in order to convey the intentions of the Government to Ambassador Kawagoe.
Repeated to Peking.