"Fourthly, Wherever the Japanese troops go they often kill innovent Chinese people and outrage their women. We the members of this Council always regarded Japan aa @ civilized nation and refused at first to believe it such news, but we have read the peti-tons of the people of Shantung who. have suffered at the bands of the Japanese troops, and the names, ages, and the detailed circumstances of the outrages are clearly set down, which prove that al' this news is true, Has our Government made investigations? Have we asked the Japanese to give justice? Some people may sey that auch occarrenees are merely sccidente due do-not concur in thie view when we recollect the experiences we had Jest year at Nanking. When the Nanking rebellion was raging the Japanese merchants rushed—into the fighting line-and were shot_ by! stray bullets. The Japanese Govment from them, but the Jepaneee troops acted contrary to our ex-Peotationp, Hes our Government "Fifthly, we hear thet the Japanese troops are issuing mili notes wherever they go. What right has Japan to issue such unstable currency forcibly in our 4er-silver? And when may we exchange these notes? We recollect that during the Russo-Japanese war the Japanese issued large amounts in Mukden. Afterwards such military notes were converted not into ver but were exchanged for notes issued by the Yokohama Specie Bank. At present there are several tens of millions of Yokohama Specie B notes in Manchuria and not @ single military note was exchanged for silver go in reality they issued inconvertible notes in our territory and the direct outcome was the forcing up of the prices of all commodities and the causing of economical disturbances. We have that Sustained the deepest suffering on this account, and the evils are still existing, The Japanese are now repeating this action in Shantung. Did the Japanese notify our Government before they issued auch military notes and after their issue has our Government asked for explanations? In the opinion of the members of this Council our Government should deal severely with the Japanese and insist that Jao panese troops should buy commodities with silver. If they refuse to do this on the pretext that it inconvenient to transport silver from place to place, we should sist that a definite number of mi tary notes to be circulated must. be arranged, and the equivalent value of these notes in silver should be handed over to our Government as a guarantee that these notes will be converted. Then on that condition alone we should allow them to issue military notes,
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