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Show THIS COUNTRY IS LOSING JAPANESE I San Francisco, Feb. 27. The num- H ber of Japanese laborers in the Unit- H cd Stntes has decreased by 11,152 in H the past three years. If statistics pre- H pared by the Japanese foreign office W are correct. Tho figures were made W public yesterday by Matsuza Nagni, H Japanese consul general for San Fran- W H In the three complete years, 190S, m 1909 and 1910, the report shows 14,- H 257 laborers returned to Japan fiom H the United States, while only 3105 M left for this country, j H Of the non-laboring class, on the jl other hand, there was a slight in- H crease In the number settling in Amor- H ica 5G5G leaving their country for H this and S75 returning home. H The report indicates that the United MM States has lost G.371 Japanese of all H classes by excess of departures over J mm arrivals In these three years. H |