In the course of his New Year message, Prince Konoye said that Japan's main alm in the current hostilities was to bring China, "who hing gone astray, to her beaten ways."
Japan, he states, "desires to build solid foundation for the progress and stability (of the Far Bast and to make the product a pillar of the universal peace structure."
Following the fall of Nanking, the Premier asserts, the Chinese National Government has become "a weapon In the hands of the Communist Party, destructive organization."
Sig Japan is asked what she wants most," Prince Konoye added, "there can only be one answer—she wants peace in the Orient. To build a solid foundation under this peace, Japen must fight her present battle,"—Reuter reece Terms Impossible London, Jan, 5. ance peace terms are, of course. utterly Impossible, declares the "Birmingham Post" to-day. They would give Japan, it states," contro! of all, Chinese resources, actual and potential, and no Chinese Government could accept them and survive. China ovald and did accept them, the newspaper adds, Great Britain," the United States, France and probably Germany would have a, good deal to say—Reuter,
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