Tokyo, July 2. TPHE Japanese government has adopted four-point military, Political and economic programme designed to strengthen the Japanese-sponsored government in Nanking and bring about the final collapse" of the Chungking Government, well-informed quarters reported here today.
Outstanding feature of the new programme is a plan to increase Nanking's native armed forces from their present level of 150,000 to 500,000 men.
It this force of a half million men, to be trained by Japanese officers in China, can be used to launch a full dress civil war between Nanking and Chungking. a large number of Japanese troops presumably would be re-eased from the China front for possible action elsewhere, military ob-Servers said, The four-point programme adopted by the Japanese government envis~
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