The daily stressed that the more the resistance power of Chungking is weakened. the more it ig necessary for Japan to intensify her military operations.
Describing the present widespread Japanese operations against Chungking's armies as delivering a coup de grace against faltering enemy arms, the "Mainichi" expressed the conviction that the present Japanese. operations in full swing in all parts of China are not being carried out on the assumption that Chungking's forces have been strengthened or rein-
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