In its first report, the sub-committee states "it is clear that the two countries take different views as regards the underlying ground for the dispute and the incident which led to the outbreak of hostilities, but it is unchallengeable that powerful Japanese armies invaded Chinese territory and militarily control large areas, including Peiping itself, that the Japanese Government has taken naval measures to close the coast of China to Chinese shipping, and that Japanese aircraft have been carrying out Eombardments over widely separated regions.
"After an examination of the facts laid before it, the Committee is bound to take the view that the Military operations of Japan against China by land, sea and air are out of 21 proportion to the incident which occasioned the conflict, that such action cannot possibly facilitate or promote the friendly ce-operation between the two nations which Japanese statesmen have affirmed to be the aim of their policy, that it is unjustifiable on the basis of existing legal instruments or right of self-defence and that it contravenes Japan's obligations under the Nine-Power Treaty and the Pact of Paris."
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