Show JAPN AND AlfiXiCO Belief That a Colonization Scheme is Being Fixed Up El Paso Tex June 30What is regarded re-garded as a sensational statement Is contained in a private letter from the City of Mexico written by an officer known to be a close confidante of General I Gen-eral Diaz It is to the effect that r Japanese I government commission recently visited visi-ted Mexico for the ostensible purpose o securing colonization rights which had they been granted would have re suited in a great influx of Japanese i I I into two of the western states which are regarded as the richest in natural resources in the republic The rights asked fof were so startlingly broad and extensive that the scheme was viewed with much suspicion and was believed to have for its ultimate purpose an at tempt to conquerthe states on some slight pretext that might arise The officer says the Mexican cxecu live and cabinet are greatly interested 1 In watching the outcome of the Hawaii Hawai-i Ian watching y between Japan and the I i great republic They believe I the slight I est delay on the part of the United II States will result in the Japanese gaining gain-Ing possession of the islands They think it will be brought about by an Insurrenctlon of Japanese now on tne islands with the assistance of a strong naval demonstration which the United States would he unable to prevent because be-cause of its weak naval strength on the Pacific waters ClLThe Japanese are regarded as bold mart and extremely visionary and afflicted with a dream for empires and greatness He believes that Japan has already concentrated a fleet for Hawaii in addition to time anisva ana I other vessels now at Honolulu He j thought the Japanese would show I their hands soon after the departure of the Homyl the Japanese manofwar not lying in San Francisco harbor I tvhlchis awaiting Instructions from the Hbme government through the Japa I riese ambassador at Washington i r The officer believes the Japanese can I force the United States to acquiesce in I Japanese possession of the Islands by I quickly taking them by force and then proceeding to destro United States I coast cities and commerce in Pacific waters unless their rights by circum I stantial might are quickly recognized I I The belief prevails that the Uuited I States are about totally Incapable to Sttes rofce with t Japan in Pacific waters at least for some months to come In which I interval the threatened destruction of American commerce and property would bring out a strong public sentiment senti-ment in the United States against a I cbntlnuatlon of hostilities |