Koki Hirota, who to' the Emperor on various diplomatic problems, declared yesterday 'o the Japan International Society yesterday that Japan today is facing one of the rayest crisis in her history.
"The graveness of the situation, he added, is rooted not only in Japan's grim' determination to chastise and suppress" the Hankow Government, bhut also in the complicated nature of relationships "between China and Foreign Powers.
Turning to Europe, Mr, Hirota noted that the Spanish imbroglio has not yet been settled, while the Austro-German anschluss was said to have been. a "strong stimulant" to the European situation,
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