Significant Developments in Sino-Jap War
(Received 8.30 a.m.)
TOKIO, May 27. rjpilEßK ARE PERSISTENT REPORTS THAT GENERAL SUGIAMA HAS RESIGNED THE WAR MINISTRY. THUS REDUCING THE MILITARIST STRENGTH IN THE CABINET TO FOUR. THE RECONSTRUCTION IS REGARDED AS A TRIUMPH FOR PRINCE KONOYE, PRIME MINISTER. IT IMPLIES THAT THE RUSSIAN BOGEY HAS BEEN RELEGATED TO THE BACKGROUND -TO MAKE POSSIBLE MORE INTENSE EXPLOITATION OF CHINA. BASED ON THE UNASSAILABLE HEGEMONY OF THE FAR EAST.
The new Foreign Minister. General Ugaki, said: “I am going to do something to readjust our relations with foreign Powers, so wait and see.*'
. Mr Ikeda's appointment as Minister of Finance foreshadows everything being sacrificed for the sake of .winning the Chinese war.
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Northern Advocate, 28 May 1938, Page 5
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