Action In Chína Described _As "Crusade"
Tokyo, Oct. 20.
A resolution urging the Government to place the entire nation on "war footing" was passed to-day by the proletarian Social Masses Party, which controls 36 seats in the House of Representatives, The resolution proposed that this action be carried out through "all administrative reforms necessary for coping efficiently with the grave situation confronting Japan and by enlisting the wholehearted support of the people."
Japan's action in China, the resolution asserted, is a "crusade against influences' which antagonize and despise Japan, and for the establishment of real peace in the Far Fast"
Referring to relations with Soviet Russia and Great Britain, both of which, says the resolution, "are lurking behind China in the present dispute," the problem "defies easy solution and must be solved by the Japanese race as a national mission."
The resolution was delivered to the Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye.—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.