Large Increase in Group in Manchoukuo Tokyo, Sept. 9.
Japanese subjects residing abroad. on October 1 last year totalled 1,803, 000 persons, the Foreign Office announced to-day. Those living in the Kwantung Leased Territory and the Japanese Mandated Islands in the Pacific are included.
Compared to their number on October 1, 193%, this represented an increase of 140,000 Japanese, 74,000 Koreans, "and 1000 Formosans, a total growth of about 216,000 per-
The number of residents in Manchoukuo almost doubled in compari son to that of 1931, reaching 24,608 persons, leading all other Japanese Nanking, Sept. 9.
Mr. Chen Kung-po, Chinese Minister of Industry, this" morning assured Mr. Yakichlto Suma, Japanese Consul-General here, that Japanese mining rights in Shantung will not infringed upon by the agreement for $10,000,000 loan recently concluded between the Ministry of Industry and 'McBain Exports Ca, Ltd. 'The advance, arranged through the intermedlary of Mr. C.'T, Wang, president of the Chinese Coal' Mine Owners' Associ ton, is designed to ald the industry.
Calling on Mr. Chen at 10 o'clock this morning, Mr. Suma pointed out that the agreement could easily run counter to the spirit of Paragraph 6, Article 9 of the Sino-Japanese Agree-'Ment for the return of Shantung concluded after the Washington Conter Mr. Chen is said to have emphasis ized that the purpose of the loan was solely to aid the Chinese Coal mining Industry and had no other purpose, He is also reported to have promised to. give full consideration to. Mr. Sums's remarks and take measures prevent any violation of the spirit of the Rendition Agreement—Rengo.
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