Note 130 — Chapter I · RETROCESSION OF THE LIAO-TUNG PENINSULA
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The German note, which was accompanied by a Romanized translation into Japanese, is said to have contained a statement to the effect that Japan was weak, Germany was powerful, and Japan would surely be defeated in case she should go to war with Germany. This peculiar sentence was, at the protest of the Japanese Foreign Office, expunged from the note.—Tokushu Jōyaku, p. 86