Prospect of Nationalists Reaching Peking Tokyo, May 12.
Speaking to pressmen to-day, the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, General Baron Tanaka, stated that now that the immediate danger in Tsinan and. its neighbourhood chad been removed by military operations, he had in structed competent authorities to use diplomatic means to settle the Tsinan affair.
Stating his belief that the d was due' to a deliberate intrigue fon the part of communist demon in the Nationalist Army, the Premier emphasized that Japan had no intention of interfering. in the operations of the Southern forces.
At the same time, Baron Tunak pointed out, there was a possibility of the Southern forces pressing on Peking and Tientsin and of fighting in that region.
Therefore it was necessary for the Powers to reach a full understanding reeariling th protection of foreign residents,
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