Tokyo, June 22.
"The occupation of Swatow has been effected with a view to strengthening the blockade of South China and to deal the Chiang Kai-shek regime a crushing blow by cutting off the only important route for the supply of arms and other goods from abroad," said. Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, the Admiralty spokesman, at his weekly press conference today.
He declared that imports of war materials through Swatow had imgreased remarkably following the fall of Canton and Hainan Island.
Last year's trade figures, he went òn, showed that about $70,000,000 worth of goods passed through Swatow, half of which represented imports of war supplies and other goods, "The Japanese Navy," concluded the spokesman, "will redouble its efforts to enforce a ban on the traffic of Chinese ships off the China coast until the Chiang Kai-shek regime is overthrown."—Reuter.
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