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Show BISHOP MU GUBURE PRAISES THE JAPS. Here is the opinion of Msgr. Mugabtire, bishop of Sagalasso, and coadjutor to the archbishop oi: Tokio, Japan: "I believe the Japs will become one of the greatest great-est nations the earth has known, and this will bn really the reward of work. "You would like my opinion on what is called the 'Yellow Peril.' Well, I think a state of thing that would justify alarm is very, very far away. 1 have seen so much of the people all grades thai I have become a pro-Japanese in almost all thing-. j "They will certainly continue to flow, from their ; own country to others in the east, for the simpld reason that their own country is not large enough to keep them. But they go to other places to work, and they generally improve the districts of their adoption. "You wou'l be astonished to find in Tokio and other cities what large congregations are obtained by the Christian churches. But they come not as. the Hindoos and the Chinese after the famine, the typhou and the earthquake but regularly. Tho conversion takes longer, because they think for themselves, but the conversion is permanent. Tho adoption of a new religion has not impaired their patriotism in the slightest degree, as may bo realized real-ized from the faet that some of the best soldiers in the Avar are Christians." |