.."Such actions on the part of à few Japanese": the. statement continued, "react unfavourably upon Japan's good name, hamper the peaceful atid the legal: activities of Japanese resid~ ents here, and tend to defeat ' the great objective of the Japanese Exe peditionary Force.
This goal the declaration phasized, is the overthrow of the former Nanking Government, The Japanese Army; it added, desires to assure the Chinese. people as a whole of peace, not to regard it es Japan's enemy "Any illegal action, tending te contravene this policy, will be punished by the authorities without merey," the statement declared.
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