On the present lines it is not clear how the Japanese can hope to set up an effective administration which will function over the whole of north China and restore peace and order in the interior. The system hitherto adopted and still continued in other interior of raids and ruction of villages accused of harbouring guerillas, rare. li increases the chaos, drives ever larger numbers of fresh recruits into their arms, and adds greatly to Japanese difficulties in the matter of supplies and communications.
The recent method of garrisoning all captured towns up-country would probably prove more effective, provided it were carried out proper, but with insufficient forces it is worse than useless, In any case, the extensive mountain regions still remain to be tackled.
And as the Japanese seem unwilling to grapple with the problem ge-nously, by putting in the field tnother half million men, which is the minimum some experts consider necessary in order to clean up north China properly, it is difficult to see how and when this business is going to end Japanese Diplomatic Shuffles Tokyo, June 3.
The Cabinet today decided to appoint Mr. Maruhiko Nishi, Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, as Chief of the European Affairs Division of the Foreign Office. He will succeed Mr. Kojiro Inouye, who has been appointed Minister to Hungary. The Cabinet has also appointed Mr. Kikuji Yonezawa, Chief of the Research Bureau of the Foreign Office, as Minister to Portugal, and Mr, Jun Matsumiya, Minister to Hun. gary, as Chief of the Research Bureau.—Reuter.
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