Peace negotiations between Japan and the former Nanking Government are "out of question at present," the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Shigeru Kawagoe told Japanese newspapermen yesterday afternoon in one of his infrequent interviews.
Japan, he added, "should repudiate the National Government as the central administration in China."
It is necessary to form a new administration in Central China areas now under Japanese military occupation, Mr. Kawagoe emphasized. The Chinese population in this part of the country, he said, "sincerely desires" the creation of such, a regime.
When such a regime brought into existence, the envoy pointed out, t must be protected from obstructive and destructive pressure which may be brought to bear upon it by the Nationat Government."
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