Commenting on the withdrawal of British garrisons from North China and Shanghai, Colonel Mabuchi set aside possible British motives for doing so but stressed that the British decision will greatly affect China and it was plain that China had now lost all confidence in Great Britain.
This fact, Colonel Mabuchi declared, has added a new chapter on the question of the Shanghai Settlement and Concession as well as the larger question of the liberation of the nations of East Asia.
The present time accordingly presented an opportunity for the solemn re-examination of the importent question of the attitude being taken by the authorities of the Shanghai Settlement and French Concession towards Japan and their recognition of the National Government of China at Nanking.
Such re-examination, Colonel Mabuchi stressed, must be made towards the establishment of permanent peace in the light of the new world order and new order in the Orient.
"Asia for the Asiatics"
Cries so often heard nowadays, Colonel Mabuchi pointed out, for the establishment of "Asia for the Asiatics" and for the establishment of an East Asia economic bloc of common prosperity are no more than the expressions of ardent desire of the nations of East Asia for liberal tion from the oppression, exploitation and incursions into East Asia by races from other parts of the globe.
No other means are left for bringing about permanent peace in the Orient than through the movement for freedom, Colonel Mabuchi con-eluded.—Domei.
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