Plan Submitted to Cabinet Board in Tokyo Tokyo, Feb, 1.
A plan for the establishment of a new regime in Central China, und for the ecénomle development of all JJapanese occupied territory there, hhas.been drawn up by Mr. Nobubum! to, formerly Minister to Poland, who has been stationed at Shanghai lenvoy-at-large, and Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy at Shanghai, Messrs, Tto and [Hidaka recently made a tour of North China.
Their plan was submitted to a {four-Minister Conference which pass-{g¢ Hon to the Cabinet on January 'Both generally approved the plan, which, it 1s reported, favours the selting' up shortly of 'a new government in Central China "with the. unstinted. support of Japan."
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