Tokyo. Aug. 31. APAN is fully prepared to take counter-measures in case Gen.
Chiang Kai-shek transfers his headquarters to Kwangtung or Kwangsi provinces, Lieut-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, War Minister, told newspaper men at Morioka, capital of Iwate, Prefecture, yesterday.
The War Minister gave a detailed interview on many topics connected with the China hostilities after he had visited his New York, Aug. 30.
Further incriminating evidence pointing to definite efforts to protect the US$100,000,000 New York lottery racket of "Dutch" Schultz was presented against Jame% J. Hines, former Tammany Hall chief, today.
The evidence,. based on the testimony of Mr. John F. Curry, former Tammany Hall leader, upset earlier attempts of the counsel for the defence, Mr. Lloyd P. Stryker, to prove that Hines was wrongly accused, having been mistaken for someone else, Mr. Curry, a friend of Hines, told the court that Hines had aided him to become a Tammany Hall leader.
In aiding him to\attain the post, Hines had later sought his aid in electing William Dodge, former District Attorney, Mr. Curry said.
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