Anomalies exist here. It is impossible to disregard them, So it is More appropriate to deal direct with heads of local administrations rather than with the Government's whose control of and touch with those administrations cannot be fully effective, owing in part to the enormous. size of the country. Dr. Sugimuri, for example, praised the. relations and understanding established between General Han Fu-chu, the Governor of Shantung and the Japanese Consul-General at Tsinanfu. It was far simpler for these two friends to smooth out difficulties in Shantung than for reference to be made by Mr. Aviyoshi to Nanking on that account. The effect of the estrangement of the Jast two years had, of course, been to deny to Mr. Ariyoshi quite the sume contact as that which Mr, Shigemitsy had had with Nanking, but as time went on that disabili would vanish.
Dr, Sugimuri had many friends in China. He, had enjoyed talks with Chinese leaders—he had been pleased to meet moral Wu Te sion On the previous day at Mme. Ishii's garden party. He did not consider Zand only a fow extremist journals in Japan considered—that Mr. T. V. Soong was hostile to Japan, Mr. Soong had been very busy since his yeturn—Dr. Sugimuri thought that the resignation would not be pressed—and so the two men had hot been able to meet. Dr, Sugimuri expressly stated that, if he were a Chinese, he would go cautiously as the Chinese leaders were in developing the understanding with Japan.
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