Admiral Yonai disclosed that the Japanese naval authorities com municated with the British and American senior naval officers in Tsingtao before landing marines in the port, on January 10.
The landing, the Minister said, was punitive measure against "the systematic Chinese vandalism" against Japanese cotton mills and other Japanese property in Tsingtao and other parts of Shantung.
Addressing the Upper House, Gen. Gen Sugiyama, War Minister, declared that the Army's strategic operations succeeded on all fronts and are progressing as planned."
In North China, he said, the capitals of füve provinces have fallen into Japanese hands.
At present, he claimed, there remains only a small number of Chinese soldiers to be "mopped up" in areas under Japanese military occupation.—Domet. A
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