Tokyo, Oct. 23.
The regime of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek "certainly will degenerate into a mere provincial Administration with the fall of Hankow, but, nevertheless, 'Japan must go-ahead with her fixed policy fo assist in bulld-ing up a new China," a spokesman of the Army' Section of the Imperial General Headquarters declared today commenting on the occupation of Canton, It was highly gratifying, the said, that: the japanese drive on Canton was carried out with minimum losses to the Japanese troops and that it caused "little hardship to the Chinese people. From a strategical viewpoint, it was only natural that Japan should attack Canton sooner or later, he declared. The Chinese' commanders no doubt were aware that the drive would come, but it was ikely that the Chinese military re~ sources were "drained to such
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