While · strict secrecy surrounded the details of the line of Japanese policy to be adopted at the parleys, official insistence that a complete agreement of views existed between the various interested branches of the Government led observers to believe that the army's viewpoint had prevailed at the successive conferences held here to map out a plan of action. Consequently, it was conceded that the Japanese Government would present proposals based upon the recently-announced demands of the army for a settlement of the Tientsin dispute.—Domei.
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