Determined to Force "Bellicose Government and lis Anti-Japanese Army to Alter Attitude"
\HE "sole aim" of Japan's armed expedition to China is to eradicate, at any cost, China's anti-Japanese policy, General Iwane Matsui, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to the Shanghai area, declared last night in a message addressed to the people of this country.
Emphasizing that Japan bears no enmity toward the people of China, General Matsui declared that Japan is willing and happy to receive those Chinese "who have a genuine desire to further peace in the Orient".
Japan, General Matsui declared, is back to reap the harvest of their toils, "In passing, I would like to men-of forcing "a bellicose government tion that our army at the front has and its anti-Japanese Army to alter requisitioned certain foodstuffs storits attitude." ed in farmhouses along the route of The message read as follows: advance. Having no party to deal "As if the outbreak of a purely with, the Army has been unable to local incident in North China had defray the cost. However, we look been an igniting spark, emotions forward to an early opportunity to flared and sudden tension manifested make due compensation. between Ji "As has been stated before, we the entertain no ill-will toward the non" commencement "By those whose desire has always been to maintain and cement lasting peace in the Orient, this sudden turn of events was particularly deplored.
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