Foreign News: Tojo's Great Step Forward

Japan's Premier General Hideki Tojo announced a "great step forward in the prosecution of the war" last week: Hireling Wang Ching-wei, puppet of Nanking and China's No. 1 quisling, declared war on the U.S. and the British Empire. The move was important only to some 12,000 Britons and Americans in Shanghai who had enjoyed relative freedom of movement. But, having secured this token of subservience, Tokyo demonstratively renounced extraterritorial rights in China.

Snorted Chungking: "Only another ludicrous act in the puppet show with which the Japanese attempt to create the illusion that there...

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