Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-15 | Page 11 | Denies That Japanese Want the Philippines

DENIES THAT JAPANESE H WANT THE PHILIPPINES LONDON, July 1 1. Right Rev. William Awdry, Anglican bishop of South Toklo. In a long letter to the Times this morn-Ing, morn-Ing, repudiates the Idea that the Japanese have any aggressive intentions toward the United States or elsewhere. Ho says that he should not have given this qucs-tion qucs-tion a moment's thought but that the governor of the Rank of England, whom ho personally met, was seriously anxious and full of questions on llin .subject- jH Bishop Awdry declares his conviction that tho Japanese sincerely hope that the United Htaics will keep a light hold on jl the Philippine Islands for many years. jH Tho financial situation, he says, docs not lead Japan to desire to assume fresh burdens. He says that with Japan powerful nnd China ."oon to become powerful, Insistence upon the policy of mutual exclusion is jM certain to mako offecllvo Iho cry of "tue jH far East for far Easterners."