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Show JAPANESE THINKERS ARE WIDELY APART Differ Greatly Upon Question of Trying Try-ing to Hold Marshall and Caroline Islands. TOKIO, March 15 (Correspondence of the Associated Press"). Public opinion in Japan is not entirely unanimous on the question whether Japan shell retain possession pos-session of the Marshall and Caroline islands which she took from Germany ajid now holds. The Osaka Mainichi sets forth the attitude of many Japanese thinkers In an article in which that newspaper news-paper ins-isis that the islands bhall be retained. The Mainichi declares that, if America was allowed to seize and fortify Hawaii and thus 10 greatly threaten Jatan; if she was permitted to occupy Guam and the Philippines, making them not only a source of wealth to herself, but also a great menace to Jaoan. China and the Brit'sh and Dutch possessions; if Australia Aus-tralia aud New Zealand have similar control con-trol over New Guinea and Samoa; it is certain' that .hipan shall possess the Marshall Mar-shall and Caroline islands, exercising the same riht and rule over them. "A nd in so doing,-' th paper asserts, "Japan will be only acting the part of a smali watch dog faithfully protecting1 its own house. If Japan is not to be allowed al-lowed to fortify the islands she took from Germany and which of right belongs to her, then th defenses of Gibraltar, the Suez canal and other points should be razed. "Racial discriminatory treatment in these respects, too, should bo abolished and these islands not be left to white man's domination." The opposite view was expressed by Yukio Ozaki, former minister of justice, In an address delivered in Tokio a. few days ago in which he said : "It is, indeed, a jrreat honor for Japan to occupy the position of a stockholder in that great international corporation, the league of nations. The honor is far greater than Japan will obtain by the possession of the Marshall and Caroline islands." |