To allow the Twenty-Ninth Army "to continue its policy of provocation" is to court "new and still graver developments" in North China, according to Major-Gen. Seiichi Kita, military attache to the Japanese Embassy here.
Addressing Japanese newspaprrmen, the officer declared that "another breach of faith will force the Japanese Army to lose its badlyd patience."
The Chinese "non-compliance" with the terms of the agreements reached on July 11 and 19, he declared, must be ascribed "either to internal discord" or to a decline in the influence wielded by Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, Commander-in-Chief of the Twenty-
Ninth Army The continuing advance of Central troops to the north, Major-Gen. Kita asserted, is "partly responsible for the recalcitrance" exhibited sy the Chinese forces in and near "Agitators employed by the Kuomintang and the Popular Front," declared, "are actively deepening the anti-Japanese feeling in the ranks the Twenty-Ninth Army, and we are probably justified in believing that it is no longer friendly to Japan."
It is futile. he concluded, to expect the Chinese "to reflect on the situntion" and to make an effort to clarify it
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