Shanghai, Mar. 24, With all seven Japanese Consuls-General stationed in major Chinese cities south of Shantung province in attendance, the second and last day of the diplomatic and consular conference called here by Mr, Hachiro Arita, the Ambassador, was held at his official residence in'Route Pichon, yesterday. There was a general discussion of the Chinese monetary reforms, their effect upon financial conditions in various parts of the country and upon Sino-Japanese trade.
Mr, Arita left for Tientsin at 4 p.m, accompanied by Mr. Wakasugl, Mr. Nishida, and Mr, Toom Hagiwara, Third Secretary. "Mrs. Arita will sail fon the s, Nagasaki Maru for Tokyo, where she will await her husband.
Un his arrival in Tientsin, Me. Arita will receive coparts on the Situation in North China from Mr.
Takeo Kawagoe, _Consul-General there, and other consular officials.
Japanese papers said that the communist situation on Shansi and the activities of the Hopel-Charhar Poli teal Council and the East Hop2i Autonomous Anti-Communist Government will claim his special attention.
More than 300 Chinese and Japanese were present at a reception given on Sunday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. Arita, Tneluded were Gon. Wu Te-chen and Mrs, Wu; Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassajor-designate to France, and Mrs, Koo; Mr. and Mrs, Wang I-ting: Rear-Admiral Osami Sato, Japanese Naval Attache; Major-Gen, Rensuke Isogai, Japanese Milliary Attache; and Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commandant of the Japanese Naval Landing Party.
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