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Show JAPANESE DESIRE PEACE. Such is Assurance of American Traveler Trav-eler Upon Return. San Francisco. Japan desires more than anything else to maintain friendly relations with the United States, J. Russell Kennedy, head of the Kokusai news agency of Japan, declared in an address before Kiwanis club here Fri-day. Fri-day. Mr. Kennedy, who has just completed com-pleted a tour of the United States after about fifteen years in the far east, said that everywhere lie went he bad been asked whether there was lo ba war between the two countries. "If it wore not for the serious side of that question, involving, as it does, the suggestion of a created impression of a possibility, Indeed of a probability, probabili-ty, tlie question in itself would he childishly absurd," he declared. "I can give you the most solemn assurance assur-ance Uiat If there is one tiling in the world that Japan wishes to avoid more Hum another, it is the rupture of friendly relations between this country and' herself." |