Berlin, Oct. 31, Within a short time the situation at the front will be such as to render the Par Eastern Conference absolutely unnecessary, according to the predict tion today of General Mntsul, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanes¢ Expeditionary Force in Shanghai, in Jan interview with Herr Huldermann, the Shanghai correspondent of the Allgemeine Zeitung."
General Matsui said that he expected a decision in the'campalim on the Shanghai front, but added that fne Japanese, if) necessary, would march on Nanking and Hankow.
The Japanese commander also ex-Jpressed the hope that the evacuation fof the Nantao quarter of Shanghai could be accomplished without force fas well as Poolung, where, he said, the presence of Chinese soldiers could not be tolerated.
General Matsui was grateful for the sympathy of Italy and Germany jane the interest which Herr Hitler jand Signor Mussolini were showing Japan, although both were confronted with serious European problems Reuter,
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