Tokyo, Aug. 13.
The Netherlands Minister to Japan, General J.C. Pabst, today visited Mr. Haruhiko\ Nishi, Chief of—the European and American Affairs Bureau of the Foreign OMice, and semi-official Japanese reports " said] they discussed "various. important questions" for one hour.—United Press.
Praised Tokyo, Aug. 13, With the whole world keenly watching the outcome of the fight to the death in Europe with the German blitzkrieg against the British Isles expected to start at any moment with, German troop transportation across the Channel and. the North Sea, the feat of sending 1,000,000 men and the full equipment of 9 modern army seress the sea to China achieved by Japan was revealed by Rear-Admiral Masao "Kanagawa, director of the publicity bureau of the Navy Office.
'Rear-Admiral Kanagawa issued his! statement yesterday on the eve of the anniversary of the outbreak of hostillies at Shanghai, and he pointed out that Japan's achievement' was made] possible by her command of the sea and the air secured by the Japanese Navy.
Japan's signa) victory at Shanghai, the "Navy spokesman emphasized, doomed the capital of China, Naning, and faeiitated Japan's later Had Japan been defeated at Shanghai, Rear-Admiral Kat admitted, avery would have been taken in the China Representing Shanghai, the inter ational port, and the Japanese campaign there, as a "pocket edition" of the whole China affair, Rear-Admiral [Kanagawa urged the Japanese nation fo redouble efforts to construct the new order in Greater East Asia by} consolidating internal national " defence 0 as to cope efficiently with the historic transformation of the
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