Pilotage Issue Not Touched In Nanking The Japanese Minister returned to Shanghai on Thursday morning after hhis visit to Nanking and, in an interview, took the opportunity to deny that he had, as reported in despatches from Nanking, discussed the issue of pilotage in Chinese waters with Mr, Wang -Ching-wel, the president of the Executive Yuan. That. matter, the minister said, was in the "hands of Mr, T. Ishii, who would take It up with Sir Frederick Maze, the Inepecfor-General of Customs, when he returned from his holiday. Mr. Ariyoshi reiterated that his visit w merely a friendly one, without any Particular political signifteance.
Returning with Mr. Ariyoshi was Mr. M. Anne, the second secretary to the Legation in China, and several other official With the exception of those in foreign countries, and several in the Southwest who will be prevented from coming to the north by important business, all members of the C.E.C. of the Kuomintang are expected to attend the forthcoming Congress in Nanking, including, naturally, those assembled in Shanghai, said Gen. Huang.
The Interior Minister, who had just] returned from Kuling, declared great progress had been made in the New Life Movement in Kiangsi and that the Communist menace there was also expected to be eradicated in the near future.
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