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Show SETTLEMENT OF 0. S.-JAPANESE PRO BLEM LDOMS Foreign Minister Uchida Hopeful Hope-ful of Reaching Common Understanding TdKlO, Sept. 1-1. (By The A-.-o-ciatcd Press.) An effort to reach a "peaceful and satisfactory- settlement ol (he Japanese problem in California are being made by Roland 8. Mori is, L'nlted St. ites anibassador lo Japan. aiid Bainbrldge oiby. American sec" retar.v oi fta'.e. said uluuii, 1'chida, foreign hilnlstcr, todo. iii siatment was in answer to QUes Ions irom leaders lead-ers of the opposition put- who visited vis-ited the foreign office. He added 11 the pending anti-Japanese bill should be passed bj the California legislature It would Involve an encroachment on acquired rights of Japanese In that state, and that therefore, the American Ameri-can and Japanese government "probably "prob-ably will take the proper steps to reach o common understanding. 1 The foreign minister declared that both Mr Morris and Mr. Colby considered con-sidered the question very " important both to Japan and the United Stales, and that President Wilson also was desirous of reaching peaceful solution. solu-tion. Klnjnro Shldehara, Japanese ambassador m Washington, jis conducting con-ducting the negoti.il Ions with Secretary Secre-tary or Stale Colby and firmly believes a settlement is in prospect, Viscount l'i hirta averted. 11" added thai emphasis em-phasis should be laid on the fact that rhc Question presented difficulties. Viscount Uchida told his visitors. according to the newspaper Nlchl N'li hl. that no reply had been rec Ived from Washington to the Japane.se explanation ex-planation of i hi i j . t inn of the island of Baghalien, ofl ih Siberian coa.-u. He declared that the matter, therefor e, whs regal del ;is having been approved by (he United States government . |