Canton, Nov. 19.
Appreciation of the "friendly aril udo" displayed by various Powers awards Japanese military operations: near Canton was expressed here esterday afternoon by Lieut.-Gen. Rikichi Ando, newly-appointed Com-cander-in-Chief of the Japanese ces in South China.
"Due attention" will be paid by She Japanese forces, he said, towards respecting foreign rights and interests which will not be interfered with, "Tens of thousands" of Japanese reaps, Lieut-Gen. Ando said, were doing concentrated near Canton to prepare for the next stage, We shall not withdraw until our abjective is attained", the new Sommander-in-Chief told Japanese respondents in his first interview fe intend to proceed actively in the overthrow of the Chiang Kal-shek regime.
Liewt-Gen. Ando denounced the creation of special privileges and the requisition of private riches by force. Trade and industry, he said, would be encouraged.
Chinese who do not show hostility the Japanese, Lieut-Gen. Ando continued, would be accorded protec-on, while the Japanese army would teal mercilessly with anyone interering with the progress of Japanese military operations.
\utonomy and self-help will be sneouraged to bring about a return of peace and order and the economic -chabilitation of the Chinese people,' ne declared—Domei.
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