Tokyo, Jan. 10.
The decision taken by the Japanese Cabinet yesterday affirming the necessity for a disappearance of an anti-Japanese. government in China was explained by a Foreign Office spokesman to-day as meaning that Japan is equally prepared for peace and for a continuation of military operations, but that peace is only possible if China would give positive proof of(her intention to abandon her anti-Japanese attitude. The spokesman went on to say that as long as the Chinese authorities, acting under the direction of Gtneral Chiang Kai-shek, persisted in their hostility to Japan, the latter would continue to wage war with the object of destroying the Chinese Central Government.
In view of the Cabinet's decision "that the anti-Japanese government must be removed" and in view of the announcement that further ims portant decisions are to be expected at to-day's Cabint session, the papers here this morning publish lengthy articles diseüsing the mea. sures which are most likely to be token, The papers point out that an influentia group of Japanese political and military leaders advocate not only a declaration of "war against China but also la complete blockade of the entire China coast and the suppression of all possibilities of importation of foreign goods into China. The possibility of an oc-Cupation of Canton is also again mentioned by the papers in this connection,—Trans-Ocean.
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