Tokyo, Feb. 15.
Japanese Military victory over forces of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek is not necessary for settlement of the Sino-Japanese war, because Japan now occupies the "choicest parts" of China. Major General Takayoshi Tanaka, Director of the War Office Recruiting Bureau. said yesterday. according to Japanese Sources, "It is essential that we develop economically areas now under occupation," Gen, Tanaka told a Diet Lower House committee. "If such development is carried out by Sino-Japanese interests those areas will increase, creating closer economic bonds which in turn' will increase political rey lationship.
"China will then find it cannot stand separate from Japan." he said, "When that times come we will just ignore Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Chungking and Yunnan."
Gen. Tanaka said Japanese expeditionary forces in China were following a policy of "peace and order first." in which railway and military barracks construction played major roles, Japanese sources reported.
Gen. Tanaka, Japanese sources said. described the military barracks and railway büilding programme in Manchoukuo and said that since the Japanese programme began there in 1935 peace and order has improved and bandits who then numbered approximately 225000 have been reduced to only 2.000.
Similar results, he said. were being attained in Shansi, Inner Mongolia and Shanghai areas—United Press.
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