The Archive · 1941

Error Admitted

Tokyo, June 13, Mr, Koh Ishii, Deputy Spokesman for the Cabinet Information Board, today accepted the responsibility for misleading foreign correspondents yesterday when he stated that instructions had been sent by the Home Government to Mr, Kenkicht Yoshizawa,. head of the Japanese delegation to the Batavia trade parley.

Mr. Churchill declared "Hitler may [burn and trample his way through the tortured earth. He may spread his course far and wide and carry his curse with him, But it is here in this island fortress that he will have to reckon in the end. We shall strive to resist by land and sea. We shall be on his track wherever he goes,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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