"Previous to the outbreak of the Manchurian conflict, when T was Naval Attache. in Berlin, a Chinese military commission came to Germany, to purchase $0,000 gas masks. Asked by' the sellers what they tended to do with them, openly" said We shall drive the Japanese out of Manchuria" A few months later the Manchurian incident broke out and the present conflict is nothing but a continuation of the Manchurian me If you trace back the reasons for the present conflict you will find that Japan—a small country with very little "resources and a very large population, consisting of people with 8 great tendency towards: develop. ment, found that its people could not Yeave' the islands because the door had been shut to them by various countries, "In addition, on the continent (China), there was a regime which was trying to drive the Japanese out of Manchoukuo and now China, where the Japanese rights had been secured at the cost of an immense outlay and sacrifice of thousands of live sequently when you trace back the "causes "of the present incident you will find behind them the teterination of the Japanese people that shall not be denied rights to id." On this will also depend the the Japanese people Is 30. strony Vice-Admiral Nomura continued, "that "unless. me nonces tending to prevent just Japanese expansion disappear, the Japanese will continue to Aght. seeking expansion on the continent the Japanese nation does not intend to dominate the Chinese people. It ix with the firm pellet that' Sino. Japanese ce-operation on an equal Tooting is possible that the present. cconfliet is being waged.
Final This ideal of ce-op. dimeutt to achieve it fantieJapanese education has. been elevated to the point of religi the Chiang Kai-shek regime and that it is deep-rooted by now. We are confident that in a number of years this mistaken idea will be wiped out, is this point. T wish particularly to emphasize and ask you to under stand Japan's intentions in the pre-he thought the con-nue, Vice-Admiral thal since the. conflict were not the only ones to say when the war should end.
'Another correspondent then asked it' the Admiral had seen a report emanating from a Chinese general, which stated that the war would end a vielory for China in 1941. "The 'Chinese in Chungking have been predieting that the nal victory will be Chinese In any number of years," replied, "and they have urged' that resistance should be continued until the Japanese are exhausted. In our opinion these statements are being! made because the Chinese in the mountain fastness of Szechuen have other means to Right."
He added, in response to a futher question, that there were new Japanese means to bring about a victory, but, naturally, they would not be disclosed there. "We want you to walt! fand see whether this Chinese bredi tion comes. true." he stated.
Chungking it is a well-known that there are certain people share this opinion and people have other views" "Anybody Knows China will be awa reasons for such a statement, Third Powers Asked if he was confident of the' Japanese ability to defeat the Chiang Kai-shek regime if the assistance received by it from other quarters continued, Vice-Admiral Nomura replied, naturally since we are determined destroy. the Chiang Kai-shek, regime."
'Answering a questioner,—who asked if there was any possibility of bringing about a change in the policy of Powers, which assisted the Chiang Kai-shek' regime, he stated that the Powers concerned would. come to realize the real intentions of Japan—the secking of a real and lasting peace in the Far East.
added that there were many people who, in spite of the fact that eral war conditions were in force, were insisting that conditions were There was no change in nese policy of respecting the Fights of third party Powers. China and they believed that if the Powers would come to realize that normal conditions were not pre vailing in China at the present but that War conditions were in force, than these "Powers would see to eye with the Japanese Govern= ment.
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