Show BIG BIC S SI I CELEBRATION nON OF OF- Of- Of NEW HP UP TREATY K Representatives Representative of America and Japan Exchange Felicitations TOKIO April 17 Count Count the foreign mini minister gave a dinner to today day a for 0 OBrien O'Brien and anti the staff of the American cl in celebration cel col- of th the r recent conclusion of th the new v Ja Japanese American pa nese-A nese in c commercial in ni a I treat treaty Forty Farly persons were present among them being Premier Katsura and his associates in in th the cabinet and anda nd a few prominent Americans residing here herc In offering a n toast to President Taft Count Komura I said that sincere friendship friendship friend friend- ship had built a i foundation which cannot io bo shaken haken b by a campaign o of falsehood and misrepresentation which whir is being prosecuted with ith an ip ingenuity worthy of a better cause This treat treaty gives ives added proof of tho the solidity of tho th relations relations' between Japan and tho the United States and owes its its' existence largely ariely to the tho active interest and wise statesmanship states states' statesmanship manship of President Taft Responding Mr OBrien O'Brien toasted the that kindly kindl r and emperor agreed sympathetic sym pathetic relations relation as described by In the thc foreign minister existed and added II It It may be necessary to continue to toden deny den falsehoods and d discourage unwarranted unwar ranted and unworthy suspicions but no sincere sincero friend o of m mankind and rind patriotic citizen of cither either country should shrink from Crom the task of silencing evil minded sp speakers ak r. r and nd writers and convincing tho the last ast doubter that the nations are arc de dc- nEd to o in a ac Pr rt i de deserves serves servos the encomium tl by tho the foi foreign i n minister we must no forget that the emperor alwn always a accorded his assistance assist interest and ance sympathy |