The Archive · 1929

JAPAN'S NEW MINISTER TO CHINA

Torikichi Obata, the ne ly "leaving Tokfo. for China Brat 2, who The' Chinese grate posing the Japanese Government's cholo It is learned that the Japanese Consul-General at Nanking has been instructed to press for an earl; yeply and meanwhile Tokyo is counting the official Chinese explanation that the delay is caused by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Preoccupation otherwise, While Japanese official comment is confined to an admission that the situation is delicate, there is considerable anxiety lest the affair develop into an unpleasant international complication—Reuter. the Japanese Government must appoint a more suitable man than Mr. Obata to their Legation in China.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs is reported by the Chinese press to be in sympathy with the people's demand,

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