Minister of Education, and Mr. Yoshiaki Batta, Minister of Overseas Affairs, will be reappointed Baron Hiranuma, the "Asah lieves, will ask" the Minseito and Seiyukai parties to request their presentatives to join his ministry.
"The Asahi" also believes that M
Harumachi Tanabe, formerly a privy councillor of the Manchoukuo Government, will be offered either some portfolio in the Cabinet or the post of Chief Cabinet Secretary The Stock Exchange re-opened today. following the holidays. Quotations slumped, due to the Cabinet crisis.
The writer then proceeds to refer to what had been happening in Formosa and Korea where following the incorporation of these territories into the Japanese Empire the British trade had-been reduced to less than one per cent The same thing, he says, is going on in Manchoukuo and there are no grounds for supposing fiat there would be any difference in the five North China provinces and even in Central China if Japan should succeed in realizing her plans, tid The "Daily Telegraph", adopts the same standpoint. A bloc formed of Japan, China and Manchoukuo ould of necessity harm the interests of the Western Powers to lan insufferable extent. Even German firms have already seen themselves obliged to withdraw from Manchoukuo and Anglo-American oil companies have been badly hit by the operation of the state control of the petrol um monopoly in Manchoukuo. Even if it is the case that the British trade has not been greatly affected by the events in China, this not be said of tHe British capital excepting the Argentine no entry had attracted more British ita] than China. For this reason, Britain had in the last resort, greater economic interests in China than for instance, the United States. of
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