the Editor of the "Nowr-Cnixa Daiby News" suite the Expansion. Policy" faifected. "The enthronement of Ba the Japanese Empire. would not
YS, therefore, serven no other pu ote but to show what a stickler Japan is for formula.
Pa Yi's future may vary according:
whether he be as feeble-minded a8 Yi Chuk, or as unaccommodating jas Yi Hyeting.
aged by the Changs, which we When beret was pai. Bot deny and of which the Japanese Have made good so of in propa miday there was a yearly influx 00,000 "immigrants into purely Chinese controlled. North Manchu and 200,000 into, South' Manchuria. Yoshitaka may ye referred to. the [Japanese-compiled statistics for the figures ask for no better authority. This is in reply to his question: political malcontents. from, Munchou Kao im the Inst two yea Though, why "suppose"? But 1 am quite prepared to suppose anything. Let us suppose a square circle; and that, the Lytton Report notwithstanding, that independence was in every sense voluntary ant spontaneous and without a single Japanese having a hand in it. Now, as Japan took control of Manchur' and overthrow the Chinese Admin stration, she was bound to, take meet action to suppress any movement for secession, Bound by international. duty" and. her_ trea avowals to respect und guarant China's sovereignty in those provin. es, pending. their restitution to China, or disposition according the décsion of the: Leniue of Na:
This is without taking into. a count the fact that the, so-called dependence was possible only through the Japanese. military" oct jeupation, and aside from the ques. tion of culpability of the occupation itself, But Yoshtaka would hear of nothing but faite accomplish. And, 20 be itt In the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1895 with China, in the Nishi-Rosen Protocol of 1808 with Russia, and ju the Preamble" of the Angie-[Japanese Alliance of 1902, Japa: pledged respect and. guarantee for the "independence and perfect sover= jcignty. of Korea," Aren't thurs Jaits accomplie?
And her avowals to respect China's sovereignty in Manchuria. and the Principle of Open. Door and Equal Opportunities in" that territory treaties, agreements and declaration too numerous to be mentioned? And ithe Anti-War Pact?" And the stipulations, of explicitness nnhes part of the crisis What is amiss with these fail accomplish, excont that they are honourable and legal? And let me ask Yoshitaka:
"Must a fait accompli be discon. curable and illegal to be valid?" Am I never to have a reply?
That puppet show at Changchun its proceeding, and succeeding Manchuria may be vee only to reflect shame on evel tone concerned, and can bring forth nothin but. self-reproach, "Japan, for her breach of every" relevant avowal, China, for hier inability to check the aggression, 'The members Jot the League, for the dishonour ty the Covenant," The signatories of the relevant treaties for their evasion of moral obligations. Public opinion, in particular, for the unneassary' encouragements to the militarists, whether out of spite, for hypocrisy or in ignorance, That the whole family of nations should have bent to the will of a single recalcitrant member If, by any unforeseen chance, Chita should gain' sufficient strength, possibly with the aid of the members of the League, and of the world in general, awakened from their moral and legal unconscious Mess and properly appreciative, of Univ collective self-interest; if thus she should wrest Manchuria, from 'Japan, she and the world would have honourably and legally repaired cishonourable and' Megal felt UK
Shanghai,
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