Protection to be Afforded Chinese Property Tokyo, Jan. 18.
Agreement was reached yesterday a conference by leading members the Japan Electric Power Industrialists" Federation and. Mr, Shinji Sago, President of the Using Chung Ca, of N. China, on measures to be taken for the rehabilitation of electric power supply works in Central China.
As a result. Japanese power concerns and the holding company. in North China, will start operating electric power projects in the Yangtze delta with an initial outlay of 'Y¥.1,000,000. Mr. Sago will make an inspection tour of North and Central China at the end of this month to survey the possibilities.
Nine prominent figures in the elec-trio "power industry In Japan are expected to arrive in Shanghai January 19 "to survey proposed enterprises in Central China. Three other leading industrialists will join the party a few days later, and 20 technical experts will lend their assistance to the surveys—Domei.
'The publication of the offelal German communique concerning media-ton action in the Far Eastern con: Miet has induced: the German' press concentrate on some international aspects of this conflict.
All comments yesterday make ne attempt to disguise the fact that Germany would like to see a pacific settlement of the conflict' at the earliest possible moment, but at the same time hold out slight prospects. of, any realization. of this desire, The view prevails in competent quarters here that the position following the publication of the Japanese manifesto leaves ne further scope! for German mediation and leads t0 the rejection of joint mediation action by Germany, Britain, France and the United States as hinted in "Lo Temps" on Wednesday.
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