Anti-Japanese sentiment in China, the relations between Nanking and the Southwest and the altitude of the Chinese Government towards Japan were the main subjects discussed at the opening session of the two-day conference of Japanese military attaches and resident officers which opened in Shanghai on July 11.
While details of the meeting could not be learned, a spokesman for the office of the military attache deseriyed the conference as "short but significant," in that i was being held simultaneously with "the Second Plenary Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuo+ mintang.
The gathering was convened by Major-Gen, Selichl Kita, military attache, on the occasion of the visit to China of Major-Gen. Hisao Wayarl, Director of the Second Bureau of the Japanese Army General Star, the spokesman said.
"There have been reports tha inferences of views existed better the representatives of the Army and the Foreign Office in China in ques tions of policy. Such rumours are Jentirely unfounded for there exists complete agreement between the War and the Foreign ministries, Ambassador Kawagoe has invited the assembled officers for an exchange of opinion during their stay here," he added, The officers gathered here are: [Lieut-Col, Tan Takahashi, chiot of the "China section of the Army General Staff, Tokyo; Major Naokata Utsunomiya, "and Major Shigekt Sakata, assistant military attaches; Major Takeo Imai, assistant military attache, Peiping; Lieut. Col, Tatsumi Amemiya, resident officer, Nankino Lieut.-Coi, Sakon Watari, resident resident officer, Canton LieutCol. Yoshio Ishii, Siatt officer Japanese Garrison in North China; [Major Junosuke Hamada, also of the /Tientsin Garrison; and Major Hiroshi Tamura of the Formosan Army.
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