Comments on Note to Belgian Government Refusing Invitation to Nine-Power Parleys Nanking, Nov. 2. IMMERITING on the statement issued by the Japanese Foreign Office on October 28, a Waichiaopu spokesman made the following observations:
"The note sent by the Japanese Government to the Belgian Embassy in Tokyo on October 27 and the lengthy statement issued on the following day purporting to be a clarification of Japan's stand in respect of her refusal to participate in the forthcoming Nine-Power Conference at Brussels, not only contain many unwarranted statements concerning China but also show a definite antipathy toward the efforts of the League of Nations and the United States for the re-establishment of peace.
"The Japanese statement contended that the fundamental cause of the Sino-Japanese conflict was the antiforeign policy of the Chinese Government since the Revolution of 1911, especially in -its anti-Japanese aspects, that being sympathetic to China's national aspirations Javan had rendered assistance toward their realization, that instead of showing grateful appreciation of Japan's goodwill, China had amassed weapons of war against her, thereby causing the present conflict, and that the key to the solution of the Sino-Japanese dispute lay in the abandonment of China's anti-Japanese policy ior one of ce-operation with Japan. pressure of Japan's aggressive activities in China has at last compelled the Chinese people to rise in self-defence, but in this armed resistance the Chinese people have clearly perceived that China's enemy is not the Japanese people but the Japanese militarists who are bent on aggression. What the Chinese people want to do is not to eliminate legitimate Japanese interests in China but to halt the acts of aggression on the part of the Japanese militarists, In Short, there is no such thing as antiforeignism in China, nor is there in reality anything that may be regarded as anti-Japanese. The present unfortunate situation has arisen entirely out of the intolerable and ceaseless
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