Plan Submitted to Cabinet Board in Tokyo Tokyo, Feb, 1, A plan for the establishment of a new regime in Central China, and for the economic development of all Japanese occupied territory there, has been drawn up by Mr. Nobubumi Ito, formerly Minister to Poland, who has been stationed at Shanghai as envoy-at-large, and Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, Counsellor of the Japanese. Embassy at Shanghai. Messrs, Ito and Hidaka recently made a tour of North China.
Their plan was submitted to a four-Minister Conference which pass. td it on io the Cabinet on Janua Both generally approved the plan, which, it is reported, favours the setting up shortly of a new government in Central China "with the unstinted support of Japan."
Japanese press reports forecast that the new regime will be centred at Shanghai, and will govern the areas under Japanese occupation in Central China, independent of the North China regime—Reuter.
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