Tokyo, Mar. 12, Japanese authorities in China, including the military, were taking "proper measures" to control alleged espionage by foreign missionaries there, Mr, Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, said in the Lower House today in replying to an interpellation.
The Japanese consular police were also ce-operating, he said, Declaring that the Japanese Government welcomed evangelical work by Japanese in China, Mr. Arita said he hoped that Jepanese Fuddhist priests would be given the same rights as other fo missionaries to engage in mission work in China, with temples as their base of activities, when a new treaty was concluded' between Japan and the reorganized—National Government under Mr, Wang Ching-wei, Mr. Tomomasa Kato, a member of the Reformist faction of the Seiyukai, urged upon the Government to give Japanese religious workers the opportunity to be active in China for the promotion of ce-operation between the two countries.—Domei,
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