Osaka, Sept. 19.
Mr. Hamaguchi, the leader of the Minseito, speaking at a Party meeting here to-day, declared that the three principles upon which Japan's policy towards China must be constructed were:
(1). That China be given every opportunity to ensure internal peace (2) Japan's earnest ce-operation ith China for the realization of the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese people.
(3). The safeguarding of Japanese rights and interests in through legitimate means, with, special emphasis upon the necessity of knitting together the relations between Japan and China based upon economic interdependence, Mr, Hamaguchi elucidating his first point, namely, the ensuring of internal peace and unity in China, pressed disapproval at the advice iven to Young Chang that Manfehuria put off throwing in her lot with the Nationalists. He considered such advice useless and ineifec-
The leader of the opposition, how-fever, did not mince matters when hho declared that Japan was determined firmly to hold her position in Manchuria regardless of what Political regime might hereafter be set up there, but at the same time he strongly refuted the charge that trying to set up an independent state or protectorate.
Mr. Hamaguchi pointed out that it had been persistently and consistently Japan's fixed national policy to uphold China's territorial integrity, m proof of which he gave instance the treaties from the First AngloJapanese Alliance down to the Washington Nine-Power Pact signed in 1922—Reuter.
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