The Japanese army, foreign observers believe, will try to drive a wedge between the Chinese forces be as to divide them in two. This wedge, it is thought, will be hammered westward between the Yangize and the Yellow rivers.
"While no quick success against the Chinese armies is expected, Japanese circles hope that events will tend gradually to weaken and finally remove the authority of the Central Government an correspondingly strengthen and eventually establish that of the Japanese-fostered regimes in the occupied areas.
A -noteworthy Japanese view on the situation is provided Fy the "Diplomatic Review," a non-official Japanese monthly journal, which often reflects the views of Japanese officialdom.
In an article entitled "What Will Follow the Fall of Hankow?" the "Diplomatic Review" says:—The new situation which will ré- sult from the fall of Hankow, deserves calling -the attention of the Government and people to the following points.—
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