The special correspondent of "The Times" who has arrived in Tokyo after & journey from Burma through China sums up his impressions in an article published here today.
Japan, he says, has hitherto felt the pinch of war only psychologically but the fruits of a year's adventure ing are small, and sometimes bitter.
Japan, he states, occupies only very little territory in China and in the wide gaps betwen the Japanese garrisons, the will to resist is being Kept alive, 6 "terrible excesses" of the Japanese soldiers, he continues, have done much to undermine the chronic apathy of the peasants, At the front Japan will go on winning and China losing almost indefinitely, he concludes, but it is doubtful whether Japan can assimilate the fruits of victory without endangering her national well-being, The Japanese are launching a drive towards Hankow in four columns, according to Chinese reports from the front.
The first of the: is stated to he advancing from Mengcheng towards Choshan, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway north of Sinyang, via Fuyang.
The second column is said to be proceeding from Chengyangkwan to; wards Sinyang, an the -Peiping Hankow Railway north of Hankow, via Hochiu.
The third column, it is reported, is moving towards Hankow westwards from Hofei via Luan, and the fourth from Anking towards Kwangchi via Taihu.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.