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Show Looks Like Fake Work IT' IS very hard to shake off the impression that there is some writer who supplies the International Interna-tional News telegraph dispatches with articles ar-ticles every morning who Is crazy to see the United States involved in a war with either Mexico Mexi-co or Japan, or both. About once in so often he publishes that some 60,000 veteran Japanese soldiers aro settled around Magdalena bay in lower California. We do not believe he knows one thing about it. "We do not believe there are six hundred Japanese, Jap-anese, all told, anywhere in the neighborhood of Magdalena bay, for the very simple reason that all the land around there except, perhaps, a few acres on a little stream, would not support in an agricultural way one jack rabbit to a thousand acres. It is a desert, and unless some arrangement arrange-ment has been made between Japan and Mexico by which from that point Japanese can bo shipped either across the peninsula and across the Gulf of California to the mainland of Mexico, or down the coast to some point on the mainland, it may be safely put down that nearly all he telegraphs is untrue. And if anything of that kind was going on, one of the Harriman lines ruffs all the way down the west coast to Mexico within with-in striking distance of Le Paz, and surely it would be impossible to land and settle 00,000 foreigners foreign-ers on any point on that west coast without It being known within three days all over the United States. According 1o the dispatch sent on Wednesday Wednes-day morning, Senator Smith of Arizona knew nothing about tho matter, but was made to say that if anything of that kind was going on, ho was for stopping it. We do not believe he was consulted. We believe the chief despatcher of these telegrams is merely a robust liar who is trying to breed trouble between his country and some other. It is very possible he wants to have Mexico invaded. He may be working in the interests in-terests of certain men in the southwest who do not care a cent how the matter is brought around, but who want to see the United States invade Mexico and take from her the northern tier of stateswnich is contrary to all our professions, BBi which Is contrary to the desires of the people EH of the United States and which would cost tre- mendous loss of both life and property of Ameri- can citizens in southern Mexico. M We suspect that it was on a scare dispatch M of that kind that the soldiers were ordered to the Mexican border when Madero was trying H to make headway against Diaz. We do not be- H lieve there is any occasion for it and that when this story is sifted down to Its real base, it will H be found that some Japanese companies in San H Francisco have been negotiating for some littlo H fishing rights in Magdalena bay. That, we admit, H would be all wrong, because it would be so easy H from that in the event of a possible war between H our country and Japan to 'make that bay a base H for the Japanese fleet. We do not believe any H Japanese line of steamers is running from any H homo port to Magdalena bay; we do not bellevo H that any large number of Japanese are coming H to San Francisco from Japan and from there be- H ing transferred to the southern steamers to land D at Magdalena bay. We believe that the author- H ity for these special dispatches ought to be H looked up and investigated. H |