Action Besmirching Name to be Punished Threatening: to punish, all infractions "without mercy," Japanese military" als to take no action that: would besmirch the good name of Japan- and her armed forces.
Recounting various crimes committed by Japanese civilians, masquerade ing as military or civilian: officials or newspaper men, the statement ente phasized that these offences. tended to defeat the objectives of Japan's national policy-in China.
These activities, it said, were "arousing the enmity of the Chinese."
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