However, he added, the Chinese people were not fighting for a vie~ tory in the present dispute, their final aim being to free the country from foreign aggression and the imperialist yoke, the abrogation of extraterritorial rights, ete, The Kuomintang, he said, was directing its whole energy solely to the cause of arousing public opinion against foreign aggressors. "We might," he said, "lose through our weak military forces, but that will not be final. Through such failure we should gain a lesson by which we should be able to achieve a final victory. In attempting to free ourselves from the foreign yoko without resorting to force, we should follow the example of Japan."
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