Japan's readiness to continue hostilities in China "so. long as. anti-Japanese and unti-Manchoukuo in-linenees and pro-Communist sentiment "remain active," Lieut-Gen, Scahiro Hagaki, Minister of War, declared here yesterday. The operations, he said, would be kept up "ten years or more."
Lieut-Gen. Itagaki, speaking at a.
celebrating the sixth anniversary of Japan's recognition of choukuo, reaffirmed that Japan did nov ha designs The War Minister expressed regret that the (present conflict should have secured. declaring that the host liquidating "Eden diplomiey" fulfilling "his convielions both internal and external policies, Mi [Chamberlain's diplomacy, the "Asahi said, was "up to standard that maintained by Germany and Italy." Domei, should be made "a crusade' for the reconstruction of the Far East and nota war of destruction."
The aims of the Japanese military Joperations, he went on, rested in awakening the Chiang Kai-shek regime from its. present "illusion" so that China may be rejuvenated into a powerful member of the family of Bast Asiatic nations by the elimina: tion of Communist and selfish in-
Auences.
The creation of a state of political Jand economic ce-operation between IChina. Japan and Manchoukuo was the ultimate Japanese objective,
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