"I wish to take this occasion to address the people of China with the hope that they will resort to the proper introspection and view the unfortunate situation in a true and just light.
"For China to attempt to realize true national solidarity at the cost of fostering anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies would be a far cry from her desire to build up international fellowship and maintain peace in the Far East. combatant people of China and above all, it is my earnest desire that every effort be made to protect them from the horrors of armed conflict.
"In closing I would like to voice the hope that peaceful citizens, who lived before the hostilities in those areas behind the front which have now come under the control of the Japanese forces, will soon return to the soil of their forefathers to resume their work in peace.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.