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Show JAPAN MAY ENTER WORLD-WIDE' WAR LONDON, Aug 12 The leading ed ltorial o the limes says today The advent oi Japan as a com batant is an unforeseen develop ment m a war which grows world wide Japan may attack the der man colony of Iliao Chau w th its port of Is ngtau on the Chinese mainland It she does so she can unquest onabiy accomplish her ob ject w thout great difficulty Japan is acting in this matter upon her own nut at ve She has always bitterly resented the crea tion of the stiJl unfinished German stronghold so near to her own shores m the far east It has al ways been believed that at a su t ab e opportun ty she would seek to oust Germany from K ao Chau. At the end of the Chmo Japan ese war after the treaty of Shim onoseki was s gned Eussia France and Germany comb ned to compel Japan to give up possess on of Po t Arthur The act on of Buss a Japan well understood. What she never understood and never forgave was the compl city of Germany We recite these facts as an ex planat on of the intention imputed to the Japanese While stating again that should she act she does so on her own nut ative, we trust however that our valiant ally m the far east will limit her act on to Kiao Chau Seizures of German terr tory elsewhere m the Pac fic might lead to grave mis understandings among our kinsmen and fr ends and might injure m stead of helping our cause |