Show Japanese to Arm Merchant Ships In D Yews k to Tt Tte T. T eg m. m TOKIO TORIO Feb 22 In 2 In view of ot tho the Increasing in increasing In- In CT creasing activity of ot German submarines submarines rines In the Atlantic and Mediterranean nean it Is expected that t all aU Japanese merchant ships plying In those waters will soon be armed armPit The admiralty h has haa already suggested the tho arming of ot ships and has volunteered volunteered volunteered volun volun- to supply tho the guns bUns and expert naval gunners to man them The Nippon Kalaha tho the leading steamship company of ot Japan turned down tho the suggestion but at the came time made It plain that the de decision decision decision de- de was only temporary It la is understood that the tho Nippon I 1 Kalaha rejected the admiralty's suggestion because Its ships ship pass pass pass' through h tho the Panama canal and aed It I feared d that tho the United States might might object to foreign armed ships going through tho the waterway at llY The Japanese I Iline I lIn line lino operates around tho the world fleet with ships passing through tho Panama Pl i I canal after calling at nt London and j Bordeaux |