War' Minister Gives Assurance in Diet Vast Bond Issues for War Costs Told Tokyo, Mar. 8. 'TRENGTHENING of the Anti-Comintern Pact would. be done' along the lines already enunciated by the Foreign inister, Mr, Hachiro Arita, the War Minister, Lt.-Gen, Seishiro Itagaki, declared during a budgetary debate in the House of Representatives this morning in reply to Mr. Masajiro Kawashima, member of the Seiyukai who advocated strengthening of the tri-partite Anti-Comintern Pact into a defensive-offensive alliance.
Transportation of arms to China through French Indo-China has been carried on mostly by railway, while arms shipments, through Burma have been accomplished mainly by motor launch along the rivers, the War Minister revealed in answer to the inter~ pellater's query concerning shipments of arms and ammunition to the Gen, Chiang Kai-shek regime by foreign countries, Com~ menting on the Burman Yunnan highway, now under construction, Lt.-Gen, Itagaki expressed the opinion that heavy arms were not being transported through French Indo-China and Burma, were being supplied to the Chiang Aeroplanes and other war materials
Kol-shek "regime by the Soviet Union, declared the War Minister in reply to Mr. Kawashima, who asked iPit were true that arms and am~ munitions were being supplied to the Chiang regime mainly by the Soviet Union.
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