ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN POWERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR STUBBORN RESISTANCE | COMPLAINT OF JAPANESE WAR MINISTER | (Received 18th April, 11.30 a.m.) TOKIO. 17th April. The War Minister, Lieutenant-General j Itagaki, in a statement said that assist- ] ance from foreign powers is solely res-
Shek’s stubborn resistance. Japan does , not intend to deliberately sever diploj matic relations. Commanders have ordered troops to do their utmost to j protect foreign lives and property, and even sacrifice strategic advantages, but soldiers deplore the concrete evidence ! of foreign assistance to the Chinese.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 April 1939, Page 5
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