Tokyo, Dec. 16.
The Japanese Government has decided to establish a liaison department of the China Affairs Board in Peiping about the middle of January, according to the "Asahi Shimbun."
The agency, it is stated, will be a purely local office for the co-ordina tion of Japan's policies there, replace ing the "Special Service" department of the Japanese Army.
Major-General Seiichi Kita is to be the first director of the liaison department, assisted by Major-General Hiroshi Nemoto. Both are experts on China affairs and on intimate terms with the leaders of the Provisional Government. is placed on the fact that partment is to be a ese agency for unification on the spot off affairs connected with na, In view of Japan's basic policy that she has no territorial ambitions in China, it will not bear any suggestion mo? u "government-general" over North China, adds the "Asahi Shimbun"
The various local Japanese ager cies throughout North China will remain as they are, pending complete establishment of peace and order.
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