Nanking, Sept. 20.
Sentiments against war with China issued by Admiral K. Hasegawa yes stupid foreign policy which their government has been following. The development of the conflict to its present extent and intensity was quite unexpected.
The Japanese people, he believed, are ready to bear sacrifice in a war against Soviet Russia, lest the latter should grow so strong as to menace the existence of Japan, but they cannot understand the meaning or appreciate the necessity of the present war with China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.