Minister, with the full approval of the Privy Councillors, is known to have sent two Notes to Peking and Mukden in regard to the Chinese! civil war.
The Notes emphasize that Japan will continue to remain neutral, but} enjoins on both the paramount necessity of taking measures to ensure that Japanese interests, lives and property are not in any way Jeopardized, Nothing is said as to what Japan will do in case her interests are endangered, but the firm tone of the: authorities and of the newspapers who generally. have an inkling of what goes on behind the official veil implies that, the very moment} Japanese interests are endangered, Japan will say: "Thus far and no Further."
If necessary, it is very possible, from present indications, that Japan will be ready to take a free hand in the defence of the rights and interest she has acquired in Manchuria, This means that if Chang is beaten, he can retire to Mukden in, practically as good condition as he! set out. If Wu is defeated, then Chang will be able to follow up—at, east there will be no definite obstacles in the way of the Mukden tuchun from Japan. hhington Conference Criticized "The East alone can bring true ponent tha woe, an Sen tined to play the greatest part in this.important drama," declared Viscount Goto before an audience of many thousands who assembled to hear him in Osaka.
"The time has passed when mere conquest is beneficial to the despoiler. When Japan restored Liaotung to China after the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese war, Japan showed an example that the rest of the world would do well to take proper notice of.
Viscount Goto is regarded tofax the standard-bearer of the als in Japan, Once he was a Dureauerat "of bureaucrats. Today he is identified with everything that is liberal in the land, and his views and opinions are solemnly aecepted by tens of thousands.
The Washington conference, according to Viscount Goto, was mere sop tothe Moloch of War "Such an external attempt bring about international peace," he said, "cannot attain success. 1 am firmly convinced that the nations of the world will not be at peace until the peoples of the world are awakened to their inner pacific evavings.
Our people unfortunately know very little of their own history. The essence of Oriental civilization, whether in China oF in India or here, ig the spirit of self-government, This self-government has two A
Aspects, the one legal and the other ethical, and it is the latter which has. been emphasized
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