Japan's readiness to continue hostilities in China long as anti-Japanese and anti-Manchoukuo inquences and pro-Communist sentiment remain active," Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, Minister of War, d clared here yesterday. The operations, he said, would be kept up "ten years or more.
Lieut-Gen. Itagaki, speaking at a meeting celebrating the sixth anniversary of Japan's recognition of Manchoukuo, reaffirmed former assertions that Japan did not harbour territorial designs on China, The War Minister expressed regret that the present conflict should have occurred, declaring that the hostilities should be made "a crusade for the reconstruction of the Far East and a war of destruction." aims of the Japanese military operations, he went on, rested in awakening the Chiang Kai-shek regime from its present "illusion" so that China may be rejuvenated into a powerful member of the family of Bast Asiatic nations by the elimina-of Communist and selfish in-
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