Japanese to Press On Pursuit to Be Carried to Far Interior, Says Gen. Hata; Fierce Fighting at Tehan Tokyo, Oct. 29.
66APAN'S military action will be extended not only to Hengyang, in Hunan province, but to Chungking, in Szechuen, and Yunnanfu, in Yunnan, in case of necessity," declared General Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese expeditionary forces in Central China, in 'a press interview granted at his headquarters, according to a Japanese field despatch, Hankow, General Hata asserted, had been taken, but its fall did not mean the termination of military operations. Until and unless the General Chiang Kai-sh the Japanese expeditionary forces regime was crushed, he added, would not relax their operations.
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