Tokyo, June 4.
"Ignoring Chinese world-wide propaganda,, Japan must destroy all Chinese military bases, Nichi" said yesterday in an editorial dealing with Japanese air raids on Canton. Only through the destruction of these bases, it added, can the Hankow administration be anni" dilated.
"Taking advantage of the recent air raids By Japanese aircraft, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's government is now making desperate efforts to persuade the world that the Japanese are guilty of indiscriminate attacks on defenceless cities; the daily) det! clared.
"Although the Naval Section of the Imperial General Headquarters and a spokesman of the Foreign Office had clarified the actual situation in special statements, it appears io be urgently necessary now to clarity Japan's fair and just actions."
Similar propaganda, the journal went on, was tried by the Chinese last winter, when they accused the Japanese of bombing civilians in Nanking.
"It was later demonstrated," the daily said, "that the Chinese assertions were exaggerated propaganda,"
Canton, like Hankow, has now become a centre of anti-Japanese activities and military operations, the "Nichi-Nichi" said, The city, it added, is well defended by antiaircraft guns. Therefore, the daily said, air raids upon such a city are indispensable to the overthrowal of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.
The journal emphasized that Japanese naval airmen avoid all possible damage to the interests of third Powers and innocent civillans—
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