Tokyo, Oct. 2.
"The supreme question now confronting Japan is the settlement of the China affair, on which, therefore, both foreign and home policies must be concentrated," deciared the Prime Minister, Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, in an address to Provincial Governors here this morning.
The basic principle for the settlement of the China affair, he said, kad already been fixed, and it was subject to no alteration with a change in the Cabinet. Japan must ensure a complete settlement of the China affair, in ce-operation with a new "Central Government" in China, which was being shortly organized and for whose organization Japan would extend every possible assistance.
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