On November 3 Policy Towards China Will Be Enunciated; No Talks With Chiang Regime The guiding principles of Japan's Tokyo, Nov. 1. reconstruction of a new East Asia will be announced in a statement to be issued by the Government on November 3, the "Hochi Shimbun" stated today, The declaration will be confirmed by the Cabinet today and submitted to the Emperor for final approval before promulgation.
Although the text has yet to be published, it is learned from usually well-informed circles that the statement will contain a bold and clear-cut pronouncement regarding Japan's position vis-}-vis the new situation arising from "the fall of Canton and Hankow, and will brand the Chiang Kai-shek regime as a mere provincial administration and advance the theory of "East Asia by East Asiatics," the daily stated.
The statement, the daly went on, will reiterate that Japan has no territorial designs in China, but she intends to crush the Chiang regime Which is pursuing an anti-Japanese and pro-Communist policy and is resorting to "scorched earth" tactics, thereby plunging millions of Chinese into dire distress,
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