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Show NO AGREEMENT I WITH AMERICA I ! Great Britain and United mj& States Have Only Exchanged fT'.t Notes on Jap Demands. v'J INTERESTS IN I H British Bound by Treaty to De- fend Integrity of Chinese f House Asks Explanation. London, May 4, 3:4! p. in The I nited States and Great Britain have entered into no formal negotiations ion the subject of Japan's demands on China. Announcement to this effect was made in the house of commons k toda by the British foreign minis- ter. Sir Kdward Gre.. The foreign K I minister added that the only com- f munication of the sort between the e American and British governments had been a briet and formal con. ersa- tion in February between Ambassador f. 1'nge and a representative of Great 1 Britain. I I Great Britain in Communication. f.. Asked for a statement of the prog- P, Teas of the negotiations between Chi " na and Japan, the foreign secretary told his questioner in the house oi t commons that Great Britain had been L n communication with the Japanese E government on the subject of the Au- p i Rio-Japanese agreement generally and particularly concerning thuse British r interests which might ossibly con- B Hi't with the competing Japanese de- f: mandfl on China. These negotiations (however, he said were strictly con- t, Ifidentlal T.- Asked it he were goiug to do noth- -: Ing ' until Jap.ni by military force, having already C0,000 troops in China, k bad imposed her authority on China.'' iL and whether Great Britain was QOt - bound by treaty to defend the integ- r; ritj , ( bina, or if he was ' prepared - to regard that simply as a scrap or r paper,'" Sir Edward Grey reiterated fc that he was not at liberty to discuss I the actual terms of the Japanese de- f mauds. f |