LYTTON REPORT
OUTSPOKEN JAPANESE
"COWARDLY ATTACK"
Military circles in Japan are unsparing in tneir condemnation of the Lytton report. .
The Minister of War, General Araki, says the report is a book of .travels, worthless and impracticable, ■ which Japan must ignore. The War Office declares that the League of Nations is exceeding its authority and that the report falsifies the facts of the outbreak of 18th September. The General Staff denounces, its.'' falsities'' regarding the bombing of Chinchow. ■ , "■" General Honjo, commanding the i'army in Manchuria, indignantly denies I that Manchukuo. is a Japanese creation.- Colonel Homma, ,6f the War Office Press Bureau, says that the clever dictionyof the report conceals a cowlardly attack on Japanl The Minister of the Navy, Admiral Okada, denounces the-report. The first contingent of armed emigrants will settle'in the disturbed area over the North Korean border, where Japan is building a railway to give qnick access, to Manchuria.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1932, Page 9
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151LYTTON REPORT Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1932, Page 9
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