Mr. Arita also deprecated the proposal made by Mr. Tada for a Sino-Japanese racial conference, pointing out that such a meeting would be inopportune since military operations were still continuing.
The Foreign Minister declined to venture a guess as to when.a Chinese Central Government would be formed, but hoped that such an organization would be established "soon."
Returning to the rostrum, the War Minister admitted that peace and order in Japanese-occupied areas in China, with the exception of major cities, towns and railway zones, were not being sufficiently maintained He predicted that the situation would improve following the attention now being devoted to the question of the maintenance of peace and order in the Chinese hinterland by the Japanese expeditionary forces, © which, (Continued on page 9)
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