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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,

MR EUGENE CHEN EXPLAINS.

REASONS FOR RECENT VISIT TO JAPAN

AND THE RESULT.

REFUTATION OF SENSATIONAL RUMOURS BY WANKING

"PUBLICITY THUGS."

Mr. Eugena Chen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the National: Government at Canton, has authorised the publication of the Icllowing report on his visit to, Japan:-"

at Conton.

Information not Negotiation,

9. I want to. Japan-this point must be underlined-to secure m Fformation from Burun Shidebarn

regarding the roat aim and policy! of his Governmont, vis-a-via China, especially about Manchuria. The l National Government desired this information in order to decide whe ther the time had come for the adoption of the policy which Dr. Sun, with the foresight and vision of a great civilized mind, had poins ed out as the way of poses and strength to his country. I had no instruction or authority to enter into any sort of negotiation with Baron Shidahara

any other Japaness, nor did attempt in fact to enter into any negociation with any one in Japan regarding Manchuria or any other matter. All the reports, therefore, alloging that I visited Japan for some dark purpose to make a dos in arms Manchuris and so forth-are en or beg for Japanese gold or sell tirely false and largely the work of the publicity, thugs in the ser. vios of Nanking.

OT

When I assumed office as Minister mont roosives national assent, for Foreign Affairs, my drst task Without this national dant, it was to formulate, on behalf of the may well be that the agreement will National Government, a foreign bo repudiated by the Nation with policy corresponding to the realities the double rosult that (a) anti: and needs of the historical poriadJapanese fooling, may express itself which necessitated the establish in terms of boyooth, strikes, etc, and ment of the National Government (b) the National Government itsol

For individual member of it may Aftor surveying the field of be nationally disgradited. We must our foreign relations, I came to the ba warned of the fate that overtook conclusion that, while the dominant foreign issue during the Canton- the Anfu Government of Tuan Chi Hankow period of 1000 was the Jui with its Nishihara louns, etc. question of the Unequal Treaties,

This means that the National to-day--when the revolutionary struggle with foreign imperiallam Government must have something of was more specific than general-the national mandate before begint the present moment, the possi the question of our relations withing formal negotiations with policy in the direction indicated

bility of a new orientation of dominuat feraign issue was and is Japan, particularly in regard to Japan for an enduring agreement by Dr. Sun. Those who hope for Manchuria.

One way to secure this is to base better things, must wait,

the

with

り

I this policy is approved by

Congress, formal negotiation

Japan will then follow." Blots in Korea,

7. My visit to Japan was already franged when the Wanpaasban in- cident in Kirin and the anti- Chinese riots in Koren took place. There was a suggestion that it might not be expedient to proceed

I was forced to this conclusion on my conversations in Japan "i by two ronsiderations. First, a study of the history of the past reasoned policy towards Japan and twenty years shows that Japan has to incorporate it in the general de- been one of the major factors mak-elaration on foreign policy to be ing for political instability of all government in China. The Japan-submitted to the Fourth. National ese Military, as distinguished from Congress of the Party to be held on the modern Japan represented by October 10: Baron Shidehars, appear to believe Bhat, "a loig ng China is unfriend- ly, is is in the interest of Japan that China should be unquiet and disturbed. But without peace, reasonable period of peace, it is in- possible for any Chinese Govern ment to begin the creation of these modern institutions which are the foundation on which alone a mo. dern state and a modern govern

ant can be successfully establised Chiun. And in the creation of a modern state and a modern overnment in Chinn in the treas formation, that is to say, of Chinc from a pre-modern state into a oilern state-lies the salvation of China and the guarunters of her continued existence as an indepen- dent Kuomintang state, strongly Trased on the Three Principles of the Pouple, And secondly, Nan-Congress met on October 10 as thep king has had no real policy towards scheduled. And for this reason, 1 Japan except the old discredited one, inherited from the Peking decided to go as quietly as possible. Mandarinate, of delay and evasion. Unfortunately the news was divulg When a state that is militarily weaked by the time I arrived in Japan. treats in this way a state that is militarily strong and raptorial, the law of disaster is certain to assert itself.

Dr. Sun's Policy.

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4. In these circumstances, it was thought that the policy which might bring about secular peace and avert disaster was to be found in the teachings of Dr. Sun, who envisaged

view of the inflamed state of public feeling against the Japanese I thought, however, that the visit should be undertaken because it was necessary to define our policy to wards Japan when the Nationa!

Shidehara in connection

ia

8. In Tokyo I saw Baron Shide- hara and had an exchange of views with him. The substance of my conversations with him, as they ra lated to Manchuria, has been sun- marised in my nete or protest to Baron with the present situation in Man- churia, the text of which was sued to the press on September 2 a régime in the relations between last. I quote the relevant pasangus China and Japan in which under-in the protest: In our conversa standing and friendliness might re-tions held during my recent un- place mistrust and misunderstand official visit to Tokyo, I stated that ing. He saw, may be, with clearer relations between China and Japan eyes than his generation's, that just had been unsatisfactory for nearly as the peace and order of the system pa generation and I suggested that of Europe rested upon peace be the time had probably come for a tween France and Germany, so the new orientation in policy in the pence of Far Agin-which is a vital sanse of the teachings of Dr. Sun interest of nations was condition-Yat Sen whose conception of the ed by peace between China and relationship between the two coun- Japan.

5. It was for the purpose of find tries, linked in certain respecta by a common culture, envisaged a re- ing out whether a new orientation gime of understanding and friend- in policy in this sense and direction linesa instead of mistrust and was not only possible" but feasible misunderstanding in their interna that the National Lovernmenttional intercourse. And I referred authorized my visit to Japan in to what is known as the Man-

My instructions were embodieburian question as the arus

all relations betwear China and Japan.

the summer.

Manchurian Question

ed in a confidential memorandum which I prepared for Government- before my departure. I quote from, it: I am proceeding to Tokyo to "I emphasised that no Chinese hold, a set of confidential conver-

or group of Chinese or Chinese. Gov sations with Baron Shidehara, ernment could agree to a settlement Japanese Minister for Foreign of the Manchurian question which Affairs, on the subject of placing involved the annexation or Chinese relations with Japan on a practical annexation of. Manchuria basis of permanent friendship, by Jepan. I stressed another point. which was always desired by the I said that no settlement of the Tsung-li (Dr. Sun Yat Sen).

question would be effective and reul inless the Chinese Nation as a whole

The

provod of it; and I indicated that such approval would have to be secured through the submission of the terms of settlement to the Kuomintang in National Congres assembled.

A Modern Note. "In these conversations I shall introduce modern note in that Baron Shiddhara will be made to understand that he is dealing with a modern mind who, on behalf of the National Government, is pre- pared and ready to examine with

You replied that nothing could him, frankly and in a modern sense, be further from the thought of the the possibility of a lasting agree Government of Japan than the mont between China and Japan.

annexation of Manchuria and, af "A fundamental point to be and when it became necessary, your made clear is that any settlement Government would be prepared to of the Chinese-Japanese problem declare categorically that Japan which, chjectively, means the prae-recognised Manchuria as an inte tical annexation of Manchuria, can gral part of the Republic of China not be considered. It may be time and had no wish or intention to the Japanese iden is to bring about infringe Chinese territorial sover such an annexation in the guise of signty in that region. At the same economic rights' and specialtime you pointed out that: Japan. privileges. A definition, therefore, had rights and interests in Man- of the phrases economic rightachuria, most of which are vested in and special privileges will be her by treaty and all of which are songht as well as goographical the cutcome of a long historical definition of Manduria which, background.' In further conversa. so far as Japan is concerned, ought tions with responsible membera of not to include Northern Man the General Staff Headquarters and éhuria.

the War Office in Tokyo as well as with the officiel leader of the Seiyukai, 7 satisfied myself that,

Another fundamental point to be emphasised is that, owing to paat

and present difficulties with Japan, on this crucial point, you appeared

no agreement with her can be real to express the governing mind, of and effective unless such an agros, | Japan.".

10. In view of the calamitous situation in Manchuria, and

the ambittered state of the nation's feeling towards · Japan · and the Japanese, I do not think it would evince a sense of reality to consider,

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