PRIMISM over a wholesale Tokyo, Sept. 17. adjustment of relations between Japan and the Soviet Union is regarded as premature by Japanese financial circles in regard to the conclusion of a truce agreement in connection with the Nomonhan incident, The agreement, however, is none-the-less welcomed by the circles, which find in it a first step toward the realization of the new diplomatic policies of the Abe Cabinet w has proclaimed the determina tion of concentrating the total national strength upon composing the China incident.
With the conclusion of this Soviet-Japanese agreement, according to the opinion prevailing in these circles, the Japanese Government will be able to drive for the establishment of 'a new order in Bast Asia in cooperation with the forthcoming new central regime in China, and in this tense the agreement will serve. to constitute an inestimably hard blow the regime of Gen, Chiang Kal-Hopes are expressed by these cir-les, which wholeheartedly are_in favour of the independent diplomatic polloies of the new cabinet, that the fame dexterous stroke as has been shown in the settlement of the Nomonhan incident will also exhibited in the treatment of various states, certainly is a good phsychological starting point for a settlement of further grievances. A botter understanding between the two great East Asiatic Powers, the journal adds, certainly will facilitate a peaceful solution of fundamental problems in the Far East—Reuter,
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