Evening star., 1937-11-13
PEACE CALLED AIM
Of JAPAN'S FIGHT
o. E. Weller Gets Admiral
Uriu's Letter UNFOLDING
Nippon's Mission.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 13.-While ia
pan paid final tribute today to Baron
Sotokichi Uriu, copies of the Japanese
admiral's death-bed letter went to %
of the surviving members of his class
ut the United States Naval Academy.
The letter described the war in
China as "Japan's fight for peace"
and said what Japan is fighting are
China's violent anti-JapaneSe policy
and the menace of Communism"
o. E. Weller, chairman of the Mary
land Public Service Commission, for
mer United States Senator and presi-
dent of their class of 1881, made the
letter public last night and sent to
the % other living classmates of the
Japanese naval hero his final mes
sage.
The letter completed a cycle of un-
usual correspondence. Five minutes
before learning of Uriu's death yester-
day Weller mailed letter to him, in
response to Toxic dispatches of Octo-
ber 26 that Uriu had received two
cardiac injections to give him strength
to dictate the letter to Weller.
Japan is now desperately trying to
establish conditions which are essen
tial for peace and stability in Eastern
ASIA" the dying admiral wrote. Para
doxical as it may seem, she is really
engaged in mission of peace. She
Is fighting for its fulfllment because
all peaceful methods have been ex-
hausted"
Recognizes Grievances.
Japan fully recognizes that China
has grievances against us as we have
against them" he continued land We
are fully aware that only an organized
and stable China can secure peace
and stability in East Asia"
China's desire for freedom from
domination" he went on, lis a just
aspiration as such, but this fight for
freedom has often taken place in the
form of violence against one foreign
nation or another E. Now Japan hap
pens to be the target and fares the
worst. not only because of the magni-
tude of the conflict, but because the
whole world condemns her for retail
iating and seems to be hanging upon
Japan's shoulders the whole burden
of Chinese grievances for which she is
only partly responsible"
Fighting Communism.
"China's real grievances are his
torical," he said, mounting from a
hundred years ago when Western
powers began to dismember China and
forced upon her the so-called un-
equal treaties. Japan was the last to
appear on the scene and in her case
she obtained her share because her
very national existence depended upon
1t.
What Japan is fighting today are
China's violent anti-Japanese policy
and the menace of Communism.
The anti-Japanese policy is a men,
ace to our interests directly, but Com
munlsm in China which is aided and
abetted by the Communist Interna-
tlonal in Moscow, is a danger to the
entire Far East. Its presence cannot
be tolerated by any nation which de-
slres to pursue peaceful and legitimate
business in China"
AS if happily unaware of the near
ness of death, the 81-year-old admiral
prefaced his views with a word of
regret to know that so many of our
fellows have crossed into the Great
Beyond, for they were all grand fell
lows; but at the same time it was
encouraging to hear that there are
rs OF us still here, bound by the old
ties of comradeship, though separated
by distance.
Living in the quiet seaside town of
Odawara, whose shores are washed bv
the same waters which sweep your
Pacific Coast, cannot help but remi-
nlsce about my American friends
whom 1 value, not only in the per-
sonal sense, but also as links which
bind your country and mine in bonds
of amity"