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Japan's "Axed policy to open the Yangtze to general shipping at an opportune time" has undergone no change, Rear-Admiral Masao Kanazawa, spokesman for the Ministry of the Navy, told foreign correspondents here today during his weekly press conference.
He added, however, that the attitude of the Japanese naval and military authorities that "the time is not ripe for opening the Yangtze to general navigation" also remained unchanged, "The "strategic necessities" which caused the closure of the Yangtze, the spokesman continued, still existed. He pointed to the large-Scale military operations still going on along the upper reaches of the Yangtze, particularly in Hunan, while the Yangtze Valley itself, he said was not yet free from danger, including attacks from Chinese guerillas and the threat of drifting mines which were still being found from time to time—Domei,
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