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Show I THE JAPS THREATEN - 1 & WAR AGAINST U.S. ftt fl, Action of California Legislature in Insisting By Upon Passage of Alien Land Law Calls, I Forth Threat of War by Japanese Ambas- ;V sador Rumors of Mobilization of Ameri- II y can'Battleships, . ( M Washington, April 22. There Hvl ' ' "were four interesting if not mix startling developments in the JB -controversy between the United ly States and Japan today over the !mW California alien land legislation. WfF 'Here they are: f T ' 1 Embassador Chinda in- ' ' formed President Wilsonjn the wl name of the mikado tfiat the jRlfc Japanese people could not be jrj? restrained for demanding a dec- jX Jlaration of war if the alien 2stiland law proposed by California izSjfVwas directed exclusively at the -Japane8e5c. N " ?- 2 The president, realizing zl the seriousness of the situation, 1& tfand without .waiting to consult L 'the memtere o niB cbinet e" T? ,;peatd his' plea to Governor Irtnactthlt would anV way, conflict with the treaties already entered,Jntq by Fthe national government. ? iJS-tThe .departraentofjusti.ee, evidently under instructions from the'White House, began to formulate a. plan to block, the. ji law if passed. , - - gj 1.4 Navy department officials fj say - unofficially that the big $ : Atlantic fleet of battleships wi!l if probably be kept in home waters. f and the joy cruise to Europe $ ' abandoned. . , - x'v6lr- V-Tne visit of Viscount Chinda Wi 9 the white Hou8e was raade : immediately f ollowingnews that 'W'"- the California legislature had My., practically decided to pass the It apti-alien land act with a clause ", wr Barring only aliens' not eligible ;1 i. to citizenship. This is the form Mi . of the law against which. Japan Mr" K is protesting. fl Following this plain state- m ment, the president, without I "" waiting for advice from any 1 other source, framed his second t. telegram to the California law- i$& - makers which urged that no law vVi thai might be called into ques- 'm ""' tion by Japan be enacted. 1 Washington, April 22:VNot M since the guns of Eort Sumter 1; 0oom'ed out over Charleston fiar- Sorin 1861 has the nation front- iq ed so serious a threat as it does ;. I today." And now, as in the day 4 j. of the Fort Sumter, the issue i3 vv t. I the jisame states' rightsthe ( t, privilege of a state to -cojntroHtB , '; , own affairs under the general 'constitution of the unjon. tt ' ( f When a minister plenipoten- ' tlary and embassador extraor- : f binary of a foreign power con- r veys to the president of tie ' k ' United State? such a message fTF' aTth"e Viscount Chinda, the Jap- -. fl anese embassador, has repeated 4 B to President Wilwn in the White 1 House within one day, it , If Hi Lv ... - . fiHHBJ j. A amounts practically to a Japanese Jap-anese ultimatum. It has come to the point where tho United States must either, compromise the, rights , of -the state o California- a,nd surrender sur-render tor Japan, or buckle ori its armor and defy the arrogant contentions of. the Mikado. Meanwhile one encouraging evidence of vigor and of individuality indi-viduality on the part of the administration ad-ministration is the holding back of the greatest battleship fleet that ever sailed the seas from its projected cruise into " the Mediterranean and its equipment equip-ment and concentration on the western ghoresJ) t)ie republic. |