"The American navy makes it a custom to carry out grand manceuvres in April or thereabouts regularly every year and this year, too, the United States navy is doing so as usual, and that is all. It is unnecessary for us to consider whether the grand manceuvres of the American navy have anything to do with the establishment of the new central regime in China.
The United States may attempt to utilize the manceuvres for political purposes, but even in that case our navy will feel no menace whatsoever. Our stand is always for non-menace and non-aggression.
"Despite the fact that Japan is engaged in a war no less great than the one between Britain and Germany, the people of Japan seem to be lacking in the spirit required to bear all hardships, Because the Japanese people have never had any experience of a long-term war nor suffered the acute hardships of to extend the scope of the present Pacific manceuvres—United Press.
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