The Archive · 1939

Chapel Hil, N.C;, Apr. 6

Mr. Tswen Ling-tsul, First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy, told a University of North Carolina audience that Japan's war plans contemplate the occupation of all the South Seas islands, including the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, 'He said Japan had definitely begun the execution of her' policy of economic and political domination of Asia and adjacent areas when she Started the Manchurian campaign in September of 1931.

This Japanese programme, he said, consists of two parts; the army's continental policy envisages the conquest of China and other Asiatic countries, while the navy is following a South Seas policy in which the Philippines and) Netherlands East Indies are in~

Mr. 'Tswen charged that Japan was planning to use China as a base for her "anticipated clash with other Powers forthe domination of Asia and the Pacific." He' said that in order to do this, Japan must crush fall Chinese resistance and root out foreign business from China,

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