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 Tsarists of the stamp of General Horvath would be so mixed as to defy a solution, she added to the chaos beyond Lake Baikal; and since the triumph of the Allies and the armistice of the 11th November, by forcing the Peking Government to rename this office the National Defence Bureau, she has managed to retain it as the headquarters for Japanese intrigues. Among recent secret agreements signed by the corrupt generals attached to it is said to be one relating to Fuhkien province, which is reported to place that strategically important zone, which dominates the island of Formosa, on a quasi-Manchurian footing.

This challenge to the world's decency and honour can no longer be disregarded; it must be taken up, since imperialist Germany cannot be considered properly crushed until her copied methods have been eradicated from the Far East.

The root of the evil lies in the present nature of the Japanese Government; in the fact that under the present Constitution it is perfectly legitimate for the Japanese Ministry of War to direct the Empire's policy in China and to be above the control of the Diet. A Japanese