Referring to an article published Appeal for Organization in the "News-Chronicle" on January By Gen. Pai Chung-hsi 17, a member of the Diet today asked Mr. Hachiro Arita, the Foreign Min-Chungking, Jan. 30. aster, whether it was true that a new Addressing the Chinese Mohamme-Japanese-Italian Pact would not be dan Association here, General Pai concluded.
Chung-hsi, Commander-in-Chief of The member pointed out that if the Chinese forces in the south-west such a Pact were contemplated, it provinces, urged the 50,000,000 Chinese would mean that Italy was demand-Mohammedans in China to organize ing a Pact against Great Britain and and give their full support to the the United States as well as against Government in the war against Japan. Soviet Russia If the Chinese continued their firm, Mr. Arita briefly replied that the vigorous resistance, General Pai de-anti-Comintern Pact was purely clared, the war would be won in against the Comintern and had no three years. other meaning.
"Anyone who proposes peace will The conference of Japan be denounced by the entire nation," bassadors and Ministers, which has he added. just been concluded in Paris, was "To march forward means that we intended primarily for the giving of will find safety, but to retreat means first-hand information regarding catastrophe.
Japan and China by the newly-"The Japanese say, that the war appointed Japanese Ambassador to st 100 years," General Pai con-'Italy, Mr. Shiratori, to his colleagues but we are prepared to fight in Europe, declared the Foreign for 1,000 years, if nec "—Reuter. Office spokesman today. He intimate ed that similar conferences will be 3
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