Nanking, Oct. 3 cdvaneed by Mr Hikoiehi Sotoyar Taking issue with, the claims
publisher of the, "Osaka Mainichi
cripps- Howard newspapers in the an ande which appeared the Unig States, Drs Wellington "Koo, at the invitation of Mr. Roy Howard, Catan of the Serippettoward hain, has telegraphed the following woply" regarding the Manchurian crisis:
challenging. Russt's position "Ching was thankful to Japan for South Manchin. im 1904, but. she vas completely disillusioned when Japan forced China at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, to recognise Russian transfer to Japan of the Kwantung leased territory, the South Manchuria Railway, and other rights and to grant new con ossians.. "The result shows that the war of 1004-5 wis a war for ter HRorial agarandisement. The charge that China secretly connived with! Russia to defeat Japan is unfound-posed to participate against but was frustrated by Japan hersd for reasons now clear to the world.
"It was Japan who attempted to close the Manchurian door after, the' War. 'The consequent American anxiety led to the formulation of the 'Knox' plan and it was Japan's objection no less than Russia's which' caused its failure. The best proof is now the well-known Twoty-one demands which Japsn presented to, China in 1915. "Again, Japan proposed to exclude Manchuria and Mongolia from the operation of the Consortium plan. Te was only. with ficulty that Japan was induced to withdraw this proposal, and then she pool only two projected railway fines.
"To declare that the incident of September 18 is local in character is, to ignore the considered opinion of the whole civilized world and to misjudge the efforts of the United States and the League to curb the ambition of militaristic Japan and preserve the peace of the world. For Japan to disregard the united stand of the League which the -United States has fully endorsed in
among nations, it would be a wilful the interest of peace and good will attempt to make a scrap of paper' out of the Anti-War Pact, the Cov-tenant of the League of' Nations ud the Nine-Power Treaty. I cannot believe that modern Japan can persist in defying the public opinion of the world. In a word, Japan in every. interna has accepted to cause uphold the peace, However plausible it may sound, the statement mow under reply cannet serve to restore the confidence of the world in Japan. Such confidence will be regained not by word but by deed."—Kuo Min.
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