Tokyo, Oct. 14.
Pakhoi, eastern Kwangtung seaport and the sole ocean outlet for ihe Nationalist Government, is virtually occupied by the Japanese Navy, Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondo, former éomminder-in-chief of the Japanese naval forces in South China, said Sea patrols, coupled with almost daily air raids executed whenever weather conditions permit, have effectively destroyed the seaport as a point of trans-shipment for munitions, he stated. Vice-Admiral Kondo returned to Tokyo yesterday to us-sume a new post with the Naval General Staff. Twenty thousand cases of gasoline had recently been destroyed at Pakhoi in an air-raid.
Referring to Chinese troop remnants in the mountains of Hainan Island, the former commander-in-chief d. clared that their resistance would "die a nátural death" as a result of a dearth in intuitions. An attempt to establish a munitions factory inlaid, he added, had been foiled when Japanese naval aircraft blasted tne building housing the plants—Domti.
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