Tokyo, July 7.
Colonel Hayao Mabuchi, head of the Imperial of Army Department of Information, today issued a statement.
d saying "The settlement of the China Affair, at whatever sacrifice, remains the pivotal centre of Japan's national policy,"
Colonel Mabuchi claimed that areas now under Japanese occupation total 2,000,000 square kilometres, or seven times the area of Japan proper, or the total area of Europe, Russia not He said that this was no for. argument and that the ple had only to go forward,
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