Nanking, Oct. 2. FRANK and outspoken public statement setting forth the extremely explosive clouds which hover above the political horizon of China and Japan and appealing to both the Chinese and Japanese people to do their utmost to avert a new crisis was issued to-day by the leading vernacular newspapers of Nanking and Shanghai.
The declaration outlines in detail the "gravity of the present Sino-Japanese deadlock and its, disastrous. consequences on both nations if the current extremely unhappy state of affairs were allowed to take its own.
Stating that as China is now con fronted with "the "unprecedented crisis all Chinese citizens should unwaveringly share the responsibilities for the country, the manifesto warns ther public against any. rash action which may further aggravate the: situation. "We should." the message says, "slond together and adhere to the concrete national policy and asst the government in suppressing all short-sighted anti-foreign acts; The manifesto further exhorts. the public not to get unduly excited over resent uncertainty.
As we should take the future ex-Istenco into consideration," it proceeds, "we should not talk ightly of breaking off our relations with Japan. just to pease our momentary impulse, On the other hand, we should not adopt a defeatist, aititude and Jeave the destiny of the nation the hands of fate, and Japan may work together for mutual prosperity or they may battle for mutual destruction, it behoves.
'Mineing no words," the Nanking and Shanghat dailies remind thei Japanese contemporaries that if fefforls are made fundamentally readjust Sino-Japanese relations, the gravity of the future situation' wil far exceed that of the Shanghai war and the Great Wall ighting Driven to desperation China would have to make her last sacrifice In the last effort to maintain her independ ence.
Chinese public opinion, it says, has reached a point whereby It will not tolerate the government's accepting humiliating. terms in order. to. pre= serve peace. China might have to Suffer "untold sacrifice," but could Japan escape from such a disastrous whirlpool in the Orlent?—Central News.
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