"Now the clash has come, and we hourly read of the charges and counter-charges of atrocities in the best approved manner of the Great European War. We Chinese must feel profound sorrow; if we mourn the murder and mutilation of our Commissioner of Foreign Affairs sith his entire staff and hundreds of other civilians and soldiers, bably in the heat and passion of the moment, neither side is guiltless.
"But what of the future? The Best minds of China and Japan should be devoted to localize the conflict, to bring about peace not to contrive at, winning a war. The European War with its lesson is
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