The Japanese Government will also [provide guarantees that once peace 1s Festored further conflicts shall not} arise but China must relinquish all Janti-Japanese and pro-Communist ideas. "The Japanese Government again emphasizes its determination not to enter into negotiations with the Central Government of China under General Chiang Kal-shek and insists that military operations will continue until every vestige of mili. tary and political power of Chiang Kai-shek is eliminated. The Japanese plans for a new Chinese Central Government provide for a collaboration the provisional governments. in Peiping and Nanking with the Mon-
Even after the hostilities cease, it will be necessary, according to the! semi-oficial agency, to leave the Japanese troops of occupation in China to exterminate all anti-Japanese and Communist influences. For the restoration of China, the Japanese Government intends to mobilize all forces in the military, political, economic and cultural fields.. Japan will [develop China's defences and also her productive capacity in order to cope with all eventualities, even the intervention by a third power—Trans-Ocean.
Japan to March On Tokyo, Oct. 26.
"If necessary, we will march to the remotest sections of China," declared Lieutenant-General Seishiro Itagaki, Minister for War, today, in an exclusive statement to' Reuter on the occa sion of the partial occupation of Hankow. The full statement fol-
"Our army has at last charged into the city of Hankow. Very soon we will be in full occupation." What the fall of Hankow signifies will be best Known to General Chiang Kai-shek himself. After this, coupled with the fall of Canton, he will be little more than a local chieftain, "But for the Japanese, this is a mere milestone on the way' to the finale [of the complete eradication of all influences embracing Communism, and resisting Japan's just and right aims.
"We will not relax our efforts until have succeeded in building a new China, laying the foundation for permanent peace in the Far East. Only then, but not until then, will we stop. If necessary, we will march to the remotest sections of China."—Reuter,
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