WAR IN CHINA: New Phase

After extensive travels in North China, the Japanese War Minister General Hajima Sugiyama returned to Tokyo last week and obviously it was time to review the war (see map), now about to enter a fresh, perhaps final phase. Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye admitted last week that his Cabinet has been split for months on the question of whether the Empire's best policy is merely to keep trying to hold and digest what Japan has gained or instead make supreme efforts to chase Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who lost his Capital Nanking...

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