The Tokio outbreak having impaired foreign sentiments, the "Kokumin"
warns the Japanese people to reconsider their attitude towards the peace question, and expresses its standpoint for the benefit of foreigners in frank and plain terms, that the popular anti-peace treaty argument in favour. of the con-party of intriguers and has been encouraged by some of the Japanese papers, which were ignorant of the real situation, thereby enlarging the disturbance. The -official paper adds that it to appeal to the European and American peoples that their construction of the Japanese people's good {sense is too harsh, as the disturbance is attributable to the aforesaid two causes only.
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