London, Feb. 22. The International Rubber Committee announced to-day that it was recommending prolongation of the Rubber Pact for at least five years.
The recommendation was said to have been made by the Committee w of the fact that wide distill exists in the world's productive capacity and consumption of Gaimusho Sets Up Special Body to Make Plans Tokyo, Feb. 22, The Japanese Foreign Office has established a Planning Committee to deal with China problems, "with a view to meeting the situation arising from the growth of a sound Provisional Government in North China and an atmosphere for the organization of a new regime in Central China."
Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Vice-
Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Chairman of the Committee, which was inaugurated to-day.
The Committee is divided into three sections, namely, political, economic and exploitation.
The Japanese Foreign Office, it is stated, is attempting to build up the new Committee as a "Diplomatic General Staff for China problems."
The opinion is gaining strength among official circles, says the "Hochi Shimbun" to-day, that a new department, which will be named the "Asiatic Affairs Ministry," will be established.
This will be done by merging the existing Manchurian Affairs Board of the Cabinet, the Asiatic Bureau, the Chinese Cultural Enterprise section of the Foreign Office, and the Overseas Ministry, under whose jurisdiction the Japanese administrations in Korea, Formosa, Saghalien and the mandated territory in the South Seas are at present placed.—Reuter.
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