Tokyo, Sept. 30.
Establishment of a Board of China Affairs was expected to be accelerated rather than retarded by the resignation of Gen. Kazushige Ugaki as Foreign Minister yesterday, a canvass of political opinion revealed today.
The new Government agency, under a compromise formula recently agreed upon, would be entrusted with:
1. Formulating Japan's China policy; 2. Arrange for political and economic ce-operation with the new regime in China; 3. Investigate and plan Japanese political, economic and cultural activity Tes in China; 4. Control Japanese business corporations in China, and 5. Unify in' its hands the various affairs concerning China now being handled by several Government departments,
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