le all over China. The whole country will be thrown into
disorder and Yuan's Government will consequently be overthrown. We
shall then select a man from amongst the most influential and 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 cannot 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 cannot 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 mis