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Show Japan May Agree to Mediate Dispute Through Third Party BRUSSELS, Belgium. Nov. 9 (UP) Japan may be willing to discuss peace with China through third party mediators, diplomatic sources asserted today, following word from Tokio that a reply to an invitation to negotiate from the nine-power conference would be withheld until after Friday. Many delegates among the 19 nations na-tions in conference here to promote peace in the far east believed that the delay indicated that Japan would not flatly refuse the overtures. over-tures. Others thought Japan was "stalling "stall-ing for time" to enable her armies to continue their gains in China. Japan has made up her mind as to what course she will pursue, it waa indicated in dispatches from Tokio. An announcement said that the Japanese cabinet waa withholding withhold-ing an answer to the nine-power invitation until after it meets Friday. Fri-day. Diplomatic Indications that Japan might leave the way open for future fu-ture negotiations heartened delegates. dele-gates. It was said that a conciliatory concilia-tory reply to the 19-nation invitation invita-tion would give the conference an opportunity to deviae new peace propoaals and avoid discussion of strong international measures against Jspan. Today's plenary session was postponed post-poned until tomorrow for several reasons. Including the uncertainty of British Foreign Secretary Anthony An-thony Eden's arrival from London, President Paul Spaak's difficulties in forming a new Belgian cabinet and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos' delay in leaving Paris because be-cause of important business. Eden was believed to have received re-ceived a forecast of the Japanese reply. Instead of the plenary session, ses-sion, the delegates continued private conversations. BRUSSELS. Nov. 9 t) Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff, Russian delegate to the Brussels conference seeking an end to the Chinese-Japanese war, announced suddenly today to-day hs is leaving for Moscow tonight to-night Litvlnoffs departure generally Is regarded as a protest against a move which he thinks is under way tt eliminate Russia from major conference activities, particularly from conferences of committees. Such a move to exclude Russia presumably pre-sumably would bo an effort to placate Japan. BERLIN, Nov. (UP) The first authoritative opinion on reports that Adolf Hitler was planning to mediate the Chinese-Japanese war was contsined in a statement made available to the foreign press today. 'Th only noteworthy thing about these reports," the statement said, "is that they ever came into existence ex-istence at all. Nevertheless, they are indicative of the position that Germany holds today in the concert of the powers." |