Tokyo, May 24.
'The Emperor yesterday morning received the head of the goodwill mission of the Nanking government, Mr. Chen Kung-po, at the Imperial Palace for a brief' audience.
Later, the Prime Minister, Admiral Afite"masa Yonai, received Mr. Chen and Mr. Chu Min-yi, deputy envoy of the Nanking government of Mr. Wang Ching-wel, and. conferred with them for 50'minutes on conditions in China.
The Nanking representatives asked Admiral Yonai for continued Japanese ce-operation and assistance in China—United Press. desire to see the status quo of the Netherlands East Indies preserved. 'The said thet although was' impossible to predict any jeountry's polley far into the future, Japan' was following the non-inter-[vention policy in an effort to speed jup the settlement of the war in China.
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