The Archive · 1938

JAPAN MAY HAVE TO "DEFEND CHINA"

New Central Regime Must Pay for Japan Troops Tokyo, Feb. 1.

Japan may have to assume respon. sibility for the defence of China, if China became a member of a Japan-bloc, Japan Is considering the con-delusion of an economic agreement with China, providing for the exploitation of China's natural resources snd "development of commmunteations and trade.

These glimpses into the future of Sino-Japanese relations were mad in the Lower House to-day by Ge Gen Sugiyama, War. Minister, the Foreign Ainister, Mr, Hirota, In response ti pointed me terpellations by Mr, Yadanjl Naka-Jima, of the majority Minseito Party, Mf, Glirota uso declared that a ow regime in China would be developed "along the existing lines* and "when the present regime Japanese Claim Heavy

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