Show or JAPANESE AIM ARE NOT HOSTILE 7 Ambassador to io Paris x Fr Frankly Discusses cusses Relations a With the United States IJ 1 it FOREIGN POLICY OUTLINED Is N Socking g to n Il Great Commercial amid Industrial ill l Country Count r Amid Ami 1111 Cannot Afford to Antagonize Special S I Correspondence Corres r Juno June 26 At the tho present PIUS P hour thero thorn is perhaps no single of ot International 1 ate ance which U Is the of moro more attention I ona might ray nay aa of ot niora lIlora general tY and dla die t l than time tha attitude alms alma und timid am ambitions 1 ot of the thu youngest of ot tho thin great powers It would almost seem soom as i though mho tremendous JUIf struggle from which Japan emerged victorious had bad Pt hud the Ihu affect of ot unnerving the world IH and causing it t to 10 whisper anxiously h turn will it bo be next If II this thin atmosphere of at ba be b It t Is la of or tho the II brat rut Importance r to know kilo what sully aro tiro tho the alms alma and E Ei it Intentions i IC at i to ns u of ot No man mall In Is better batter r rr r t mil t 1111 e d to speak on this la subject than tho tha diplomat who tube boro p so 10 brilliant a n part art In the nogo t Halloos at BU Sl Petersburg I which pre pro t Ceded tho thin war Will and who ho now flOI tho the represents in Paris Pails I FRIEND OP OF AMElUCA r Si I KurIlla IH s a II ad ull und mild friend of lit America Whore where ho ii ft spout quite a at 1 considerable portion of ut lilt his life lICe Ho lo speaks with pleas plean uro tiro of ot n Ills hili old Harvard days In Iu nil all M mb was Willi ton tell and 1111 a IL halt half years years a u resident of ot tho rho United Slates seven coven 4 1 tad and a II half bait years ears aa ur a I student ho grad graduated In III I Sl and three as us mIlliliter t plenipotentiary at rat Washington On OIL Harvard Air tIr entered ontero l the Japanese foreign whence ho he his nn 1 tat amid to lu Washington h aR ton t In n i Prom Y VII lon ho Iao went S to tOmu nail and thence to St Bt whore lio ho up III to tho the outbreak of hos has rue Tho ambassadors own corn com comment meat ment on Oil his hit diplomatic is II worth Placing on an record n as time tha utterance of or ofa u un a n mind My career huts has been a 1 failure allure for I Iwas was Willi unable to Ie prevent war I ON SITUATION M II 11 r readily consented to ru ro reo ii o I ive m me tine III and Rna having heard the Iho th oh ob il lest Juit of or my III visit t his hie said I limit there thera Is 18 u a re 10 P lust just now nolY tn to the thil relations and Japan ui us rS Incidents of little In Jut th have been beon r l to such Buch an extent that the tho two have b heel beer en ont d dau au as on nn the tho verge of qt war A t Journal actually wont so tar far an us to III tho tha outbreak of at hostilities ho for tor torI I d IS 1St ISI I J Camel connot understand this thU distrust of ot Japan on Ott the tho part cart of in lit the thi Whether heller it II t IH lit due duo duoto to time Son Han lIn Frum lieo Muir I cannot t tsay H say la y Jut butt It II IM is that nut It It bout beun by II jingo lint alii for fur there ther WR n complete plate nb of ur any UI Shah 1111 In iii Japan Ju mil both th the Inra mild 1111 public I Ir n to Iming nil mill that the must munt perfect ly Ih 0 11 Is l un min whatever II 11 t America In III lIHI an are lrI nod and 11 hiv hound been very Y cordially disposed Io towards l Americans American Then scents K lo ho 11 be he u a I deep d doubt ii as tu t 6 our lI Intention a Il t 1 mi that thul va Ill it heen h en sin home nt lit the thu li huel iok of rat our apr hoods h 1 1111 II jump jum W tu the con I 9 elusion that Japans Japan has hs changed because wo havo Increased our military and t credits red I In This be bc belief lief let arises from a n complete that hav ton forgot wo only Just emerged from a II long costly costy Wil that thul defects In our military naval organizations naturally revealed during I that war and must now be b remedied und Ild further that repairs aro needed on an un enormous ous OU scale They forget that we wo have havo haven n II fleet of ot ships to 10 re rel refit before they can bo ren rendered rendered dered This entails ann or 01 two years work yet for they ter leI knocked about 1 repeat It I Americans were aware of or the precise reason reMon for or our military naval expenditure they would that our tank la k Is I at lt resent chiefly ono of repairs rather than of Increasing armaments As to Iho tho Increase In our OUI forces in Korea Manchuria has hns rendered necessary for tor the adequate protection of or tho railway Our mill mili military tary strength In these two countries has been up to 10 tour four divisions two wo In each so that protection tion Is 18 now established e at regular dis lIS distances over tho system There Thure to II bo u conviction I remarked among among American and to 10 some same extent among English manufacturers that Japan only to tl Irani their trado secrets and Ind then kick thel out of the far til CERt I r am al tully fully replied his ex ox excellency that BUch Ilch a 0 belief but butI It I Is without u shadow of or foundation and betrays total Ignorance ot 0 tha lh very elements clements of the tho situation Speaking with great and amI with u a straightforward directness which worn word most lost convincing 31 1 con continued WORLD FOIl Fon A Such a I conception of or Japans alms places Illee them cry narrow Indeed Wo We aim at becoming a com commercial mercial und Ind industrial In factor In tha world for this purpose wo must have lave tho Iho ns our 0 market Hut It I wo arc to 10 have hae the world worl ns IS our market markel markelo wo o must bo nt pence tho I of or the tha world How ow would Oils ho bo pos possible sible It we were el to luch mich a n nar II policy ns kicking commercial and r rout out our of at the far cast Such n a policy Olt th retaliation would Inevitably provoke for tor us U to It bo How would I nol against the world Tho Idea that wo ure maneuvering to 10 monopolize the lie China market Is nb Hurd urd Thoro Is 18 room for tor every oer power to trade In China Chinn Is It II not rather an In exaggerated estimate and ald here Iere the ambassador smiled to 10 suppose that Japan with Us 40 to 10 BO 50 millions Is going Is to a I country ot o millions What hal about the lle Industrial Interests that other already possess In IB Is It to be supposed Unit Ja Japan JI could ignore these and ride over pan them lough shod There hero Is Ie no limit It If you once embark rk on the sea sen ot doubt elba olce and suspicion And yet ono one might havo thought that our arrangement wih with to 10 do de Fiance had given 1101 the Iho coup grace tho yellow peril peri WANTS NO There never a I of foun foundation dation for fOl the rear fear that Japan coveted and was scheming to seize any moro mOlo than for tor tho ho canard that wo havo designs on the Iho Philippines I nm sure that docs not 1110 share this suspicion Territorial ag aI Is not always lucrative America merICI has discovered s this In tho case of or tho Philippines Thu Philippines mo UIO not n a paying It IB II not 10 the policy of or to 10 seek eek territorial Our OUI ambition our destiny Is to II bo 10 n a world power and not confine ourselves to 10 Ini lh IQ Wo 0 arc ara therefore not nol und ald America but with them as UI une una of ot tho llo and 1111 na lS luch It In II to toUt our Ut IWI Interest to t put all I thought ot e aggression and to promote International 1000 by h our to support arbitration liU hil excellency 1 I turn turned ed d tho conversation to 10 tha Iho possibility agreement between America of ot nn Ln IntI Japan to 10 that thai on al tho point nf of being signed IVanco l Ja Japan J pan Ilan I 1 that M IH II personally of Iho tho opinion theiu la hi lano no ground 1 go 10 upon for tor uch at 11 lor fOI tho very VII good reason that uro ure averse to ling themselves In 11 foreign with other nations U 1 l Is only ollY necessary to togo togo go buck back n tu o a I striking nf If fidelity to this Ihl on of or the Ih 1010 lOcI rinD At the Iho nt l the the Iho great greal powers lre to pursue purl n com common common action tin Ihl United mon lino Ino of declined 10 l P bu 10 down This hlll did Ild not tho from heartily nn loyally 1011 with the powers Jl H r I |