Tokyo, Feb. 3.
Japan is determined to collect waz indemnity payments from China regardless of whether the Nationalist Government is uble to pay such indemnities or not, the Foreign Min ter, Mr. Koki Hirota. told the Lower House here to-day. He indicated Japan would collect from any Chinese regime that was able to pay indemnities, and would accept payment in kind as well as in cash "It is the fixed policy of Japan," he said, "to obtain due compensation for the China incident from China—even if it is impossible to obtain such payments from the Chiang Kai-shek Government, The fact is that compensation is obtainable not in money alone, but in kind as well "Japan may study precedents in point and decide upon the form of indemnity to demand in the near future and proceed to obtain proper reimbursements for Japanese individual losses resulting from the China incident."
Mr, Hirota said free business coni-petition would be permitted in North China except in a few important industries including transportation, communications. electricity and salt. which would be controlled by a large company. He said the Government would ce-operate in cotton production with the cotton industrialists
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