Whilst not denying that the morale of the Chinese was good, the military spokesman claimed that the Japanese morale was much better and that he had met a soldier the other day who had been under his orders some 16 years ago and who told him that, whereas in the barracks in Japan the average Japanese soldier felt that he could cope with ten Chingse warriors, the soldier had actually made the experience that in the field, each Japanese soldier could hold his own against 100 Chinese. "Just a question of zeros," the spokesman added, when the correspondents smiled at the soldier's claim.
At this juncture, a correspondent asked what would happen if the Chinese did not concentrate, according
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