"on the pretence of protecting her nationals, Japan sends fleets, of warships' and battalions of, soldiers. with every. conceivable kind of, machines of war to China. The result, aside from the destruction of fives and property to the Chinese
fend order, the stoppage of all busi is the general crumbling, of peace hess, the endangering of lives all nationals, including the Japanese. Shanghai, Manchuria and are examples.
Then there is the question of potential menace," a term the Japanese are s0 prone to use as in ner Justifeation for the extension of military activities in Manchuria and, Shanghai. If potential menace] justified the invasion of territories} fand massacre of civilians, what} would the punishment be for accom. lished crimes? Now, in the case of the Korean massacre, was China allowed to send her military forces, protect her nations from actual—not, potential—danger!
there never has been any actual] Jdanger to Japanese lives and pro-party in China. Japan's sending of troops and warships is merely an attempt to create the danger which otherwise would never exist. It unbelievable how. few cases, of violence against the Japanese have been committed by Chinese territory under Chinese administra jon. The restraint of the Chinese people it ax unparalleled in the' world as. is the savagery of the Japanese.'
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.