Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-10 | Page 3 | Japanese Issue an Official Denial

JAPANESE ISSUE AN OFFICIAL DENIAL (By a Staff Correspondent of the International Inter-national News Service.) TOKIO. Dec. 9. The Japanese government govern-ment has issued an official denial of reports re-ports that tlie inter-allied conference at Paris last week asked Japan to place more merchantmen at the disposal of tlie allies for use in the Atlantic:. The government ndds that the question of Japanese tonnage or troops was not touched upon by the confeivnce, and that Japan Is "not bound to any such obligations." obliga-tions." Japan, the statement adds, 'must decide these questions for herself," and "the allies understand the impracticability impracti-cability of sending troops to Jiurope."