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...Japanese who might well have been flushed with double-barrelled victory, War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki, officially declared last week in Tokyo: "The conflict between Japan and China is little affected. . . . Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. The unexpectedly early victory at Hankow should be attributed to the august virtues of His Imperial Majesty, and at the same time to the brave efforts of the Japanese forces which participated. After victory, tighten your helmet strap...
...sense that it despises capitalism as a creation of unheroic middle-class poltroons, the Japanese Army has for years been radical. Last week. War Minister Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki made a statement which gave Japanese capitalists the jitters. Ostensibly the War Minister spoke to warn Japan of Communist dangers and the need of greater efforts to down China, but General Itagaki sounded as though he had just been studying the history of how Russia has subordinated the forces of production to State control and developed heavy industry for military purposes...
...home last week, Japan pulled her belt in another notch, prepared for further strain., Additional sections of the National Mobilization act, which places the nation on war footing, were invoked, to ration war essentials, curtail imports except war materials, control commodity prices. New War Minister Seishiro Itagaki gloomily admitted: "The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his lifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. Consequently, it is necessary that the Japanese resolve to continue fighting at least ten years." The Imperial Council will meet soon for the sixth...
...second great Japanese victory of the week was in North China. There Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki's advance (TIME, Nov. 15) overwhelmed the besieged provincial stronghold of Taiyuan and at least 1,000 of its Chinese defenders were slain as Japanese stormed and breached through the walls...
Japanese commanders even had time to worry about etiquette. Thus Major General Rensuke Isogai, advancing down the Tientsin-Pukow line and Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, advancing on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are supposed to be "friendly rivals." Out of courtesy to them. Japanese military headquarters in China make every effort to announce on the same day that each has captured a town, although this sometimes means holding up news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette...