Tokyo, Sept. 12.
Fifty-thousand persons jammed the Hibiya Public Hall last night to hear the Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, stress the vital necessity of Sino-Japanese ce-operation to the future existence of China.
"It is impossible," the Premier asserted, "for China to exist without Sino-Japanese ce-operation as its basic principle." He added, "There can be no internal peace among the nations of the Orient without general peace in the Far East."
Continuing. Prince Konoye expréssed his doubts whether China could be happy.by pursuing an anti-Japanese policy.
"Anti-Japanese policies inspired by the Nanking Government," the Premier declared, "are so deep-rooted, that Japan's patient endurance for years has only resulted in a stimulation of that feeling. _"In view of this situation," he continued, "Japan is now compelled to crush the anti-Japanese tendencies in China."
"This step," the Premier added, "must be taken, not only to secure safety for Japan, but to protect justice and humanity. Japan," he added, "seeks" to establish perpetual peace in the Orient in full co-opera tion with those elements in China who realize that Sino-Japanese cooperation is essential.
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