Tokyo, Dee. 2.
New difficulties have in the task of finding a the Manchurian imbroglio, judging by the views expressed today by en official spokesman in an interzone. "It is insufficient the Chinese merely withdraw their troops. to within. the: Great "Wall said. "It is necessary for Marshal Ghang Hsueh-liang's government, Ghinchow also to be withdrawn.'
He was making this point clear, he explained, owing to the apparent mmsanderstandig' tu some quarter regarding Japan's meaning when Foreign Ofice intimated that Jo would be prepared to leave the civil wi ministration of the neutral area inthe hands of the Chinese. "The spokesman emphasised that, so far Chinchow was concerned, this did noe mean that Japan was prepared to agree t> the retention of the government which Marshal Ghang: Hsueh-liang had established there, but applied only to the: local administration of "tao towns and districts under te present govers-ment at Chinchow.
was felt, the spokesman added, that so long as che "Young Warshal" retained his goverament at Chinchow {here was bound to be tension, as ie'would leave him with s base Manchuria from which to direct the activities of bandits -against the Jepanese. Japan, he said, therefore proposed that." Yuan Chin-kat's government at Mulden should con {rol the neutral zone after the withdrawal of the Okinchow government, Reuter.
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