The Archive · 1939

China's Resistance

Estimates of Naval, Military Strength Issued; Pressure Felt

Tokyo, Jan. 20.

EN. Chiang Kai-shek's regime has suffered a "crushing blow" but it persists in its resistance against Japan "simply because Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union stand behind it," a pamphlet issued by the Navy Office declared the Chiang regime has lost its important towns and bases of operations, while its navy and air force have been "virtually destroyed" by the Japanese army and navy forces, the pamphlet said. The important role to be played by the Japanese Navy in building up a new order in East Asia was emphasized by the Navy

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