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Show POSSIBILITY OF" WJWJMTH WPS Germans Think Uncle Sam Would Have Hard Contest Against Obstacles. Germans Think Japs Will Take Philippine Philip-pine Islands and That United States Will be Forced Into War Upon Sea and Land With Brown Men. Derlln. Among dcrman military and naval olllcers the possibility of a conflict between tho United Stntcs nnd Japan hns been qnlto freely discussed dis-cussed and the professional views taken tak-en seem to bo that Japan would taka tho Plhlllpplno Islands nnd plnco upon the United Stntcs tho necessity of conducting across tho Pacific prolonged pro-longed sen and land campaigns, which would cnll for Immense expeditions against natural obstacles. It wag known here lu Juno that tho Drills admiralty hnd considered theoretically theoretical-ly tho possibility of war between Japan Ja-pan nud tho United States as likely to occur within twenty-five years, and bo me of tho llrltsh naval men are reported re-ported to have expressed tho belief that tho contest would occur within flvo yenrs. In any ruse, It Ib certain I that several Kuropean foreign officers aro nt present mnklng Inquiries regarding re-garding thu temper of tho Japanese peoplo and the government of Japan. |