2—üUnder the control of the Japanese army, new political regimes are springing up "like mushrooms" over North and Central China, it is pointed out, and Japan finds it impossible io work in China without contact with them. The Foreign Office will station diplomats of ministerial rank in Peiping, Tientsin, Tsinan, Shanghai, Nanking and other important cities, These diplomats will undertake exchange of information, anti-Communist arrangements and negoti, tions in general with the new regimes, 3.—As the Japanese military authorities frequently have stated, Japan intends scrupulously to respect the rights and interests of foreign Powers, and in the post-war management of Central and South China formal statements will be forthcoming assuring this, it is declared, As negotiations in this connection with Britain, the United States, Germany, France, the Soviet Union and Italy would be conducted mostly in Shanghai or Nanking, it is held that the diplomatic staff in China must be strengthened, particularly at Shanghai.
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