"Since September 18, 1931, Japan's acts of aggression in China have taken on an ever increasing degree of audacity and vast tracts of territory were seized from China. Following upon the organization of the puppet Manchoukuo and the so-called 'East Hopei Autonomous Council' she is now busily engaged in the creation of a so-called Monkukuo, or Mongol State in the Charhar and Suiyuan provinces. No nation can be expected to endure such humiliation, and yet China, hoping that Japan would finally awaken to her mistakes, has time and again admonished her people to practise forbearance. In every unfortunate incident which occurred between Chinese and Japanese nationals the Chinese Government sought for an amicable settlement even though the fault usually did not lie with the Chinese involved.
"During the past three years Japan's trade with China increased annually, while customs statistics for the first six months of the current year show that she almost attained the first place in China's foreign trade. That such a steady development of Japan's trade with China was possible should in itself be ample proof that there has been no anti-Japanese policy on the part of the Chinese Government. pressure of Japanese aggression in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.