Chapter 398 – Kwantung Army Headquarters (3)

A few seconds after Dōihara stopped speaking, Kawamoto turned his gaze toward us.

His voice lacked its former strength, but his tone remained as arrogant and imperious as befitted a military man.

“How far has this incident leaked?”

“We sent a telegram from the oil field base immediately after the incident.”

“I know about that. But the contents were ordinary enough… So it contained code words after all. Does Major General Ootori know already?”

“Yes. He knows that we were attacked. Let me ask you something in return. To what extent were the letters we sent from various places censored?”

At that, he gave a rather bitter smile.

“Even we do not have that much power. Censoring correspondence belonging to a major zaibatsu would cause far too much trouble.”

“I see. In that case, we sent reports to the