'Turning to the practical effects of the abrogation of the 'Treaty' upon Japanese rights and interests in China, the Japanese Minister said:
Commercial transaction betwoon the peoples of both countries are not only numerous both by land and sea, but a great number of Japanese, some 200,000 in all, are engaged in various business China, Just imagine the difficult position of these Japanese who may be deprived of extraterritorial rights und other privileges by abrogation of the treaty' without any no" gotiations having been comploted to revise or renew the treaty by reciprocal measures. We must of course succumb to rea son, although we may suffer a heavy loss, but we must fight out the present unreasonable attitude! of the Nationalist Government which seeks to rid the Japanese of proper rights duly provided in the treaty.
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