"Japan does not aím at making China solely dependent on Japan: she does not want her territory, but her ce-operation, in order to bring about a new era of fruitful development and constructive prosperity, which would benefit not only China and Japan, but all nations of the world as well and will allow nationals of all countries to pursue freely their business and occupation."
The spokesman declared that the Chinese "seem, by their mendacious propaganda, to have attained a certain degree of success in fooling a part of public opinion.
"Although it is an indisputable tact that the Chinese precipitated the present hostilities, they are misleading foreigners to believe the contrary."
The Chinese, he added, "have systematically encouraged and ex-plaited the anti-Japanese sentiment of the masses, working it up to a fever pitch, which was chiefly responsible for the outbreak of the conflict in the north as well as in the south,
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