JAPANESE WAR AIMS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22936, 5 February 1940, Page 7

JAPANESE WAR AIMS

“A Holy Campaign”

In China

PARTY LEADERS DIFFER (crirttfiß Pb4§§ A&seeiATios—cOptbioet.J (Received February 4, 11.30 p.m.) TOKYO, February 2, There was an uproar in the Japanese Diet when Mr Takao saite, leader of the Mlnseito Party, caustically attacked the Government, demanding a statement on Its war aims. Members dried “No” when Mr Saito saidi “Peace can be offered only when the country keeps the army in the background. This is seen as a suggestion that the arfnv should be withdrawn from China before negotiating peace.

A later message states that Mr Saito resigned from the powerful Minseite Party, while two minor parties demanded the expulsion by Parliament of the army leaders. Mr Sushiro Hata, one of the

leaders of the Seiyukai Party m the Diet, uncompromisingly answered Mr Saito. “The China campaign,” he said, “is a poly war, aiming at the extirpation of the proCommunist, anti-Japanese regime, and there, can be no peace short of complete victory. A hundred thousand men died without regret for the new order in Asia.”