"Japan is absolutely determined to bring about a solution of the concession and settlement question in cooperation with the regimes of a new China, and in order to achieve this aim she is prepared for the worst.
"Of course, the new regimes in China do not intend to expel all the Britons and Frenchmen from the concessions, and settlements. If the authorities' of the concessions and settlements are willing to ce-operate in the establishment of a new order then the question assumes a different character.
"At any rate we must thoroughly eliminate conditions which make the concessions and settlements centres for disturbance of peace and order and bases for economic machinations.
"For her own sake we regret the attitude of Britain, though we do not know what change it may undergo in the future."—Domei.
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