Tokyo, Aug. 13. Mr. Chuichi Ohashi, who has been designated acting Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, told the press on his train today on his way to the capital from Moji where he landed yesterday, that Japan should redouble her efforts for establishing the Greater East Asia economic sphere of common prosperity; "Mr. Ohashi, who has just concluded a tour of the South Seas, India, Afghanistan and the Netherlands East Indies, stated that the supply routes of French Indo-China and Burma which had been carrying heavy traffic in goods and materials assisting the Chungking regime had now been stopped.
Nonetheless, he concluded, Japan should redouble her efforts for establislfing the new order in East Asia.—Domei.
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