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Show HOSTILE PRESS JUSMLSOf! Bitter Anti-American Campaign Cam-paign Continues in Japanese Jap-anese Empire. TOKIO, May 7. (By the Ai.socia ted Press.) The anti-American campaign in the Japanese press continues with renewed re-newed furee. No serious overt acts have be!ii committed against Americans or A trier lea u property, but ev I deuce exists mat the newspaper agltntion is inciting popular feeling against America and ihus paving tiio way to possible open lieinon-btnitions. lieinon-btnitions. Representative Japanese deplore the press campaign and have begun to erUI-cisi; erUI-cisi; the government for Its failure to check ti:e literary outbursts. The participants in a mass meeting held Sunday, at whieh some anti-American speeches were delivered, announced their intention of continuing the demonstration demon-stration in front of the. American embassy. em-bassy. The police, however, prevented this step. The belief is expressed that the basis for the agitation is fear of the growing Influence of the United States in international in-ternational affairs and thai It will act as a curb on Jtfpun'a aspirations in China and Siberia. After declaring that renewed attempts for anti-Japanese legislation on the Pacific Pa-cific slope indicate that tho Arnerir ans persecute Japan in everything, while wearing the mask of liberality and fair- ness, tho J loch I Shim bun charges the Americans with having incited the Chinese Chi-nese to make the secret treaties public tmd also accuse American missionaries of . fomenting the Korean insurrection. The Yorodzu Choho says the Americans j responsible for att empts at anti-Japanese ! legislation are nothing better than barbarians. bar-barians. "1 lypocrite," "Despot," "Transformed Kaiyer," "Man with the voice of an angel, but with deeds of the devil," are tome of the epithets applied by the newspapers news-papers to President Wilson. Today's newspapers print articles accusing ac-cusing Americans and British in China with exciting the Chinese to the recent 1 Chinese-Japanese agitation in Pckin. At a meeting of the Kokuminto party held In Osaka a resolution was passed declaring de-claring that recognition of the Monroe doctrine by the league of nations should bo Interpreted as recognition of Japan s predominance in the far east. |