Eureka Reporter | 1906-12-21 | Page 4 | Possibility of War with Japs

germans think uncle sam would have hard cortest against obstacles germans th japs will take phil p p ne islands and that united states W II 11 be forced into war upon sea and land W th brown men berlin among german mil tary and officers the possibility of a conflict between the united states and japan has been quite freely dis cussed and the professional views tal en seem to be that japan would take the islands and place upon the united states the necessity of conducting across the fie prolonged sea and land campaigns which would call for immense expeditions against natural obstacles it was known here in tune that the british admiralty had considered theoretical ly the possibility of war between ja pan and the united states as ely to occur within twenty five years and some of the botsh naval men are re ported to have expressed the belief that the contest would occur within five years in any case it is certain that several E foreign officers are at present making inquiries re garding the temper of the japanese people and the government of japan