Seiyukai Leader Says Chiang Regime Still Recognized Tokyo, Jan. 23.
Despite the Government's protestatons to the contrary, its declaration of January 16 shows that it still Fecognizes General Chiang Kai-shek' administration as a local regime, Mr, Toshio Shimada, a Selyukil leader, last night told the Diet on behalf of his party, 'The stitement was made close oft the heels of Prince Konoye's assur-Jances that the Government would not center into peace negotiations with the Nationalist regime, 'Mr. Shimada urged' the Govern.
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Unless such measures are taken at once, he declared, "a situation may fause which wilt defeat the—objectives of the expeditionary forces In Central and North China,"
'The speaker urged the Government to explain publicly its stand on the matter, "in view of the fact that we cannot' expect the creation of a new regime in' China In a few
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