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Determination to Crush Chinese “INCIDENT” ADMITTEDLY FAR FROM BEING SETTLED SERIOUS APPREHENSIONS IN THAILAND LONDON, November 16. The Japanese Prime Minister, General To jo, told the Diet that after four years of war Japan was still far from having settled the so-called China incident. He attributed this to China’s wealth of manpower and the assistance of third Powers. He claimed that at any rate the fighting spirit of the Chinese had weakened. He said that Japan was determined to crush the fighting spirit of Chungking and to tighten the blockade. The Tokio “Nichi Nichi Shimbun’,’ describes Mr Kurusu’s mission to Washington as “absolutely the final effort to solve the Pacific crisis.’’ The paper advises the United States to note “the iron determination of Japan’s 100 million people.’’ There are continued expressions of uneasiness in Thailand and one Bangkok paper says the position of the country is like that of Holland and Belgium before the Germans marched in.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 5
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