"Ca-operation Area"
Datren, Oct, 1 It is reliably learned that several* important decisions were reached at the conference here of staff officers of the Imperial General Staff at Tokyo, the Kwantung Army and the Japanese garrison in north Chi One of them was that plans should bbe pushed for the conversion of north China into "a Sino-Japanese operation area" and that, at the same time, the Chinese Government should be presented with a demand that all causes of trouble in the north should be uprooted. was decided that, in the event of the Chinese Government failing to satisfy this demand, the Japanese Army should insist on the "divorce Jof north China from Nanking, ineludjing the withdrawal of Central Gov-Jernment troops and complete sever-Jance of financial relations with The conference also decided that, "inasmuch as the Central Government Jat Nanking was recognized by the Powers, Japan should deal with that administration, but only on condition that its dual diplomacy—co-operation Jwith Japan on the one hand, and resistance on the other—ehould be Sureleal Operation Unnecessary Major-Gen. Y. Okamura, of the Imperial General Staff at Tokyo, who Jattended the conference for the Purpose of explaining the attitude for the home Government, declared that the inhabitants of north China were satisfied with the status quo, Economic exploitation, he continued, iwas well on the way, and for this reason they did not believ Inecessary to conduct a surgical" operation on the political jtuation there."
The conference is also stated to Ihave considered plans for countering "possible unity among the Chinese Communist Party, the Outer Mongols Jand the Soviet authorities," which, it Iwas declared, would "precipitate a Finally, the conference is reported to have achieved a complete under standing between the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo and the Japanese commands in north China and the Kwantung Leased Territory fo "more perfect accord in the future.
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