"After the outbreak of the hostilities Japan did everything in her power to reach a local settlement of the incident, even at the sacrifice of strategical advantages.
"These facts are sufficient to prove that the action of the Japanese force "The action which Japan is toking at the present time is a measure of defence, to which she has been compelled to resort by the premeditated and provocative acts of China.
"What the Japanese Government seeks to-day is merely the abandonment by China of her anti-Japanese policy and the establishment of enduring peace in East Asia through sincere ce-operation between Japan and China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.