Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-04-06 | Page 7 | Japan Has No Idea of Acquiring Magdalena Bay

JAPAN HAS AS NO IOtA IDEA OF ACQUIRING MAGDALENA BAY NEW YORK April 6 Reports G.-Reports Reports that Ja Japan n was s ne negotiating for a it nava naval base c cat at atra Magdalen ra daI nR bay in Lower California are denied by y Marquis the Japanese Jap ant anese e prime min minister aeo according to a statement cabled to the Japanese em- em lr i in W Washington in reply to a request by the tho New York Times for an explanation of the report H So So far as th the Japanese government is concerned J the statement la as printed in the Times Time M today reads there is ig J positively no truth in l last t Sundays Sunday's Tokio dispatch that negotiations ons between between be be- tween Mexico and Japan were concluded ed cd a few days a ago o for the est establishment bJ of ot a si Jar large e Japanese settlement at M Magdalona Mag- Mag MagI ag- ag d lona bay I The marquis added that the Oriental Whaling company of Japan had acquired ac as- fishing t ri rights in common with citizens and ana subjects of other countries countries coun tries not at Ma Magdalena aleDa bay bar but on th tho coast of Mexico between the tho states of ofT T Tepic pic and Oaxaca II The Tho The ten term of the fishing right is for forten forten forten ten ye years rs the premier cabled and has no political significance whatever cr it being purely an industrial hial enterprise enter cater prise on the part of a Japanese private concern