"The Japanese Government has no territorial designs whatever.
"In the light of these circumstances it must be firmly declared that the present action of Japan in China con-traveness none of the existing treaties which are in force.
"The Chinese Government, lending itself: to Communist intrigue, brought about the present hostilities by its persistent and malicious anti-Japanese measures and its attempts to do away with the rights and vital interests of Japan in China by the force of arms, "It is China who should be deemed the violator of the spirit of the treaty for the renunciation of war—menace to the peace of the world."—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.