Interviewed in his tooms at the Towa Hotel, following his arrival by "plane from Hankow on Sunday, Major-Gen. Susumu Morioka, Chief of the Japanese Army Special Service Section in that city, blamed the reported shortage of electric power on the removal of important parts of machinery in the power plant by Chinese troops"when they evacuated Hankow.,"lt is only natural that a scarcity of electric power should arise. The army intends to use whatever power there is first for military purposes, and then to allow the supply of the surplus to the general public."
Commenting on the fact that there were numerous Japanese in Hankow, Major-Gen. Morioka said they were only those who are dqectly or indirectly connected with the military. Present conditions there could hardly be designated as a Japanese economic invasion of the Yangtze city, as the Wuhan area süll constituted part of the Japanese front lines, he was reported to have said.
"When peace and order in the city are completely restored in the future, and related conditions permit it, we would like to invite technicians and those with sufücient capital to aid in ating the rehabilitation of the Major-Gen. Morioka observed. according to tne daily.
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