Dealing with this proposed Pane Asiatic Congress, the "Hochi" an important Tokyo' vernacular daily Jand the organ of the late Count Okuma, wae was reputed to be an Jardent advocate of Pan-Asianiem (although it was Count Okuma who, as Japan's Foreign Minister, at= tempted to bind China through the Twenty-One Demands), declares that the Asiatics, who number 1,000,000,000, must be s*rongly united, Actuated by this great, prin ciple," goes on the "Hochiy" "tha Pan-Asintic Society was organized. The objective is comprehensive, and meeting may not be satisfactory regards the number of the deletes who attend it, but this is an significant question. The motive fs fall of importance. We shall never be content merely with the mnization of the Society in ques It must grow and develop until it becomes a strong tle binding all Asiatics together as though they, were one nation."
The "Hochi" then counsels patio ence and expresses the hope that: the Nagasaki meeting will be one of the means "for Asiatics to regain their independence, to rise to their old influence and to achieve prose perity.
The payer then goes on to enumerate the woes of Asin, dwelling in lurid language on the alleged tramp= ling "of their rights, honour, me terests and welfare" by the whites "The spirit of independence seems to have been utterly destroyed," it continues and then proceeds to shed tears for India.
Nothing is said about Korea or of the political changes that have caus~ fed that ardent Asiatic country Rose its freedom. The "Hech" winds lup a sob-stuff, sentimental "essay by pleading for "mutual under st ig and ce-operation, friendly reli tions and love, amongst all the peoples of Asia, regardless of race, Tokyo, July 2
According ts the "Nichi Ni Chinese delegates to the {Pan-Asiatic Congress, which opens Nagasaki on August 1, are expected aS. rasa dieriminebe that the Congress will be jnter-"the general opinion eppearg. to. eating but unimportant: it 18 not expected to achieve anything. tani. ble as the delegates are not presentatives of their Moreover, their individual interests, sao. for slemepint Recta 3 eh
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