most noted of the 400,000,000 of Chinese and help him to organize a new form of Government and to consolidate the whole country.  In the meantime our army must assist in the restoration of peace and order in the country, and in the protection of the lives and properties of the people, so that they may gladly tender their allegiance to the new Government which will then naturally confide in and rely upon Japan.  It is after the accomplishment of only these things that we shall without difficulty gain our object by the conclusion of a Defensive Alliance with China.

For us to incite the Chinese revolutionists and malcontents to rise in China we consider the present to be the most opportune moment.  The reason why these men can not now carry on an active campaign is because they are insufficiently provided with funds.  If the Imperial Government can take advantage of this fact to make them a loan and instruct them to rise simultaneously, great commotion and disorder will surely prevail all over China.  We can intervene and easily adjust matters.

The progress of the European War warns Japan with greater urgency of the imperative necessity of solving this most vital of questions.  The Imperial Government can not be considered as embarking on a rash project.  This opportunity will not repeat itself for our benefit.  We must avail ourselves of this chance and under no circumstances hesitate.  Why should we wait for the spontaneous uprising of the revolutionists and malcontents?  Why should we not think out and lay down a plan beforehand?  When we examine into the form of Government in China, we must ask whether the existing Republic is well suited to the national temperament and well adapted to the thoughts and aspirations of the Chinese people.  From the time the Republic of China was established up to the present moment, if what it has passed through is to be compared to what it ought to be in the matter of administration and unification, we find disappointment everywhere.  Even the revolutionists themselves, the very ones who first advocated the Republican form of government, acknowledge that they have made a mistake.  The retention of the Republican form of Government in China will be a great future obstacle in the way of a Chino-Japanese Alliance.  And why must it be so?  Because, in a Republic the fundamental principles of government as well as the social and moral aims of the people are distinctly different from that of a Constitutional Monarchy.  Their laws and administration also conflict.  If Japan act as a guide to China and China models herself after Japan, it will only then be possible for the two nations to solve by mutual effort the Far East Question without differences and disagreements.  Therefore to start from the foundation for the purpose of reconstructing the Chinese Government, of establishing a Chino-Japanese Alliance, of maintaining the permanent peace of the Far East and of realizing the consummation of Japan’s Imperial policy,