"We expect the war in China to continue for another five or even ten years, dependent upon whether Britain and France continue to help China by allowing the passage of arms through Burma and French Indo-China," Mr. Toshio Shirator!, newly-appointed ' Japanese Ambassador to Italy, told Reuter when he passed through Singapore.
"Chiang Kai-shek will not give easily," he added, "It depends upon Britain and France whether peace comes between China and Japan "Britain should stop trying to be the school marm or policeman of the world. she should allow Italy and Germany to expand. Italy should expand where the expansion would do least harm, as in Abyssinia, and Germany should be permitted to expand to the cast."
There was still strong anti-British feeling in some quarters in Japan, Mr. Shiratori stated "We are sorry for Britain—sorry because what we are doing in China hurts her. On the other hand what we are doing has to be done," added Mr. Shiratori.—Reuter. munist cleanup. German secret police arrested the alleged con-spiraters during a secret meeting of the anti-Nazi organization and succeeded in taking into custody all but four or five of the alleged plotters.
German authorities hoped they had smashed the last. important cell of the radical Marxists who for months have conducted a subversive propaganda campaign against the Nazi government. Informed quarters understood most of those arrested were young men who had been under surveillance for some time—United Press.
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