Nagasaki, Apr. 18.
With the prospects of peace still remote, there is an urgent necessity for continuing thoroughgoing armed operations, Mr. Toyokazu Nakamura, Consul-General in Hongkong, told the press on his arrival here yesterday.
This conclusion, He declared, sums up his observations on the general situation in China.
Since the fall of Nanking, he went or, the population of Hankow has been swollen to 1200000, including 700000 war refugees.
"There have been no disturbances as yet and the situation is being kept calm," he declared.
Aeroplanes, he said, are plying daily between Hankow and Hongkong.—Domei.
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