Show JAPAN J AN ASKED PURCHASE SE SERea Heason Reanon Rea on for f Buying Bashe Bash Islands of Spain New York Feb 6 GA A special s Sp elal ial to the Tribune from Washington says The steps taken by this government to complete its title to the hee and other Islands inlands to the north of Luzon It is said were due to representations made by Japan After the acquisition of Formosa from China Japan found the question of jurisdiction a trouble troublesome troublesome some one because e of the h claim to islands near Formosa and after ne Jle negotiations negotiations the boundary line fine between the Japanese and Spanish possessions O J was as fixed at 21 degrees 30 minutes just south of Formosa and to the north of I the islands The treaty of Paris negotiated by the American and I Spanish commissioners which ended the war with Ith Spain provided for the cession by Spain of all islands within I certain defined ri tt ti th em ern em boundary being a line running r from west to east along or 0 near Meat the thet t parallel of north latitude and through h the th middle of the navigable t I channel of Bach Bachl Rear Admiral Bradford chief of the naval bureau of equipment who was wan 1 the naval of the peace commis commission commission sion slon on examination of moie more detailed charts of the Philippines discovered that the CaM Cahl and several other islands lay Jav outside of the northern boundary boudar I and it is apparent that Japan made the same discovery To avert this er I Secretary Hay in the treaty of ot th the purchase Dur ha e of the island islands of and for Cor induced the Span ish Jah government to agree to relinquish them The belief prevails here that Japan desired the United States to ac act quire a definite title to the islands north of the degree of latitude lat rather rathe r than permit Spain to claim them t for II the purpose of selling them to Germany or some other power Rear Admiral j Bradford says the islands are strate I Important and it is important im tant that this government should acquire them I |