The Chinese Government and the Kuomintang could not evade responsibility for the recent anti-Japanese incidents. China should. carry out more effective control of anti-Japanese agitation, and make more con Structive efforts drastically prove Sino-Japanese relations, era> Gicating, once and for all, the anti-'Japanese trouble.
'Opinion was' steadily gaining ground among the Japanese "public /at home and Japanese' in China that further negotiations with China were useless, "Should the present negotiations be terminated' as useless, the lives and property of the large Japanese population in China could hot be left exposed to any further danger, and It would be necessary to consider the steps to be taken that eventuality.
Japan expected China to draw up definite, "constructive for the extermination of antic "No Tangible Resul Mr. Arita began his statement by emphasizing that, since he assumed office (March 9, 1836), he had been endeavouring to readjust Sino: Japanese relations. These endeavours had yielded "no tangible result." On the contrary, various questions had been left unsettled, "creating a Hloomy "atmosphere that was beclouding relations between the two countries, Referring to the Swatow, Chengtu, Pakhoi, Hankow and Shanghai incidents, Mr. Arita said the. victims were Japanese soldiers, officials and residents. The Chinese authorities had more than once Issued statements pledging to bring anti-Japanese agitation under control, but these "under fakings had been of no avail. the other hand, Japenese nationals in Chinn had suffered. "unspeakable violence at the hands of Chinese agitators."
"Thus the lives and property of many Japanese in China have been gravely threatened, and profound unest is naturally "prevalent among them," the Foreign Minister. pro= ceeded. "All these unfortunate me cidents may rightly be said to be the logical' consequences of anti-Japanese education, " anti-Japanese instigation and other forms of the anti-Japanese policy practised for many years, for which the National Government and. the Kuomintang cannot evade responsibility."
"The more settlement of incidents was not enough. A decisive ston forward should be taken to strike at the root of the trouble in order to prevent the recurrence of such in-idants. China should make efforts fence and for all to, eradicate the "In such a spirit" Mr. Arita continued, "the "Japanese Government has been conducting negotiations for a selliement of respective incidents and the readjustment of Sino-Japanese relations. "The negotiations, how-ore In the meantime fresh in-ever, has bec making no appreciable
eidents of the same unfortunate acter are cropping up.
"It is the sincere desire of Japan that a settlement may, as far as is possible, be peaceably reached through' diplomatic negotiations, and hut the stability of East Asia may be genuinely assured"
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