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Show PARTY OF GERMANS ! ARRIVE FROM JAPAN SEATTLE. Sept. 13. The steamship I Minnesota, which left Yokohama August I 30. arrived here today, bearing Count von ! Rex. late German embassador to Japan, ; a big ruddy-faced man wearing a Texas i cowboy hat: the members of the em- bassy staff and the various German eon- ' sular officers recalled from Japan. Korea and Vladivostok. In the party was Baron Schoen. second secretary, who has iust been appointed second secretarv of 'the embassy at Washington. Count von Rex said Japan declared war atiainst Germany under pressure from Kn aland and That the Ja pi( nes.j people and cabinet did not 'csiro war. Asked what he thought of Japan's ac-Itlon, ac-Itlon, the embassador replied: "I should like to know what the Lnited Rates thinks of it. You have islands in the Pacific that may be taken over bv Japan the next time you get. in trouble '' |