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Show JAPAN IS FACING CRISIS. Efforts Made to Reach Compromise on Bill to Increase Army. Tokio. The Merchants' association and Baron Shlbusawa, president ot tho American-Japanese association, nnd Duel Nakano, president of the Tokio Chamber of Commerco, aro urging tho diet und cabinet to reach a compromise, comprom-ise, with a view to preventing dissolution dissolu-tion of tho house or tho collapso ot the ministry. A crisis In time of war, they urge, would crcato an unfavorable Impression Impres-sion abroad and hinder national progress. |