Col. Kita declared here that the FPokyo War Ofice has implicit con-Jfdence in the ablilty of Japanese. military organs in North China to, assume charge of situations there.
Commenting on the autonomy movement, Col. Kita said he did not think the separatists will find it so easy to carry out their plans, what with strenuous pressure against them from the Nanking Government and none too completely unified views among. the self-government advocates who Invariably look fist to their own inter Gis, He said he would not be sur prised to find a number of prominent Chinese in a pickle. hedged in on the one hand by the secessionists and on the other by the Nanking Government, The Japanese military authorities, he averred, "Armly believe that the time will come when the Nenking Government will gain a true appre-lation of the actual conditions In North China and adopt some appro-nate and just measures with respect to the autonomy movement." How. ever, Col. Kita said in amplieation, events in North China cannot be foretold, anything is likely to happen at the eleventh hour, for it is "in engi
ing."
China that these things are occur-Lieut-Col. Muto supplemented his genier's remarks by asserting that Japan's China polley "has long been Axed fundamentally and in accord ance with It we ought to endeavour wholeheartedly to carry out Its orginal purposes." He said such aclon was necessary "especially when it means the establishment of peace among Japan, Manchoukuo and China, and accordingly peace in the whole of the Orient."
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