Tokyo, Sept. 9.
Officials of the War Office today expressed the opinion informally that the proposed new China Affairs Bureau must be a national organ of the government under the direct control of the Premier, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, They declared that the economic affairs now handled, by army authorities should be tramsferred to the control of the new bureau, They voiced the opinion that the objective of Japan's military action in China "cannot be attained by military operations alone without co-ordinated efforts in political, economic and cultural fields for building up a new China,"
The China Affairs Bureau question has been discussed by the five Ministers of the "Inner Cabinet" but no tual decision as to the time of its formation has been announced, At today's Cabinet meeting Lieut,- Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, War Minister, reported on the latest developments in China, The new Foreign Office advisory system also was discussed by the Ministers—Domei,
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