Divergent Views on Reforms in Kwantung Tokyo, Aus. 17, Little hope for an agreement between the Foreign and. Overseas Affairs Ministries, on one hand, and. the War Office, on the other, over the Proposed reform of Japanese official organs in' Manchoukuo and the Kwantung Leased Territory was held by leading" political commentators to-day.
The main issue, on which the three ministries hold" widely divergent views, concerns the extent of "the. functions "and the powers of the Japanese Ambassador to Manchoukuo '€¢Jand the jurisdiction under which he to be placed.
The military insist that he should bbe placed under a special administrative unit which would be under the Jcontrol of the Premier, but the for-Jeign and Overseas Ministries contend that he should be subject to the supervision of the Foreign and Over-
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