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Show i , ASIATIC DINNER IN NEW YORK, APRIL 25, I TO REPUDIATE AMERICAN-JAPANESE i f tWAR TALK; UCHIDA TO SPEAK. m mm- t: r WM- l&Jh NEW YORK, April 18 Tho thir- itJtTfJ tcenth annual dinner of tho American jSSj Asiatic association will be given at iWJ'l Delmonico's, Forty-fourth street and ' Fifth avenuo. New Yorli, on the oven- S , ing of Tuesday, April 25 The guest H of tbo occasion will bo his excellency K1! Baron Yasuya Uchida, the ambassador rfiTil of Japan to tho United Stntos The 45j i main purpose of the dinner Is to cele- Vj i orflto the conclusion of the now treaty 2A,1 U between Japan and tho United States ijjj.ii and incidentally to supply a platform rtji for an authoritative lepudlallon of the tjJjJiJ pernicious rumor3 which Imperil the S friendly relations between the two M ;t countries Tho association In its of- jH I ficial Journal states that It "can rcn- jlW J dor no more necessary service to the tttM principles which it was organized to Hg promote nor to the greater cunao of Bj I the peace of tho world than in bring- rig j Ing together representative men of Hf j both nations In the endeaor to check "SK1 ' one of tho most dangerous and crlm- f(Sf I 'na forms o tho international ngl- tatlon of our time. While the appear-nnce appear-nnce of Japan as a commercial rival which must bo reckoned with In tho far east may not bo entirely pleasing to all of our members, they must be a unit in ropelllug the pfrsistont efforts to sow dlssention between Japan and tho United States for the purpose of creating a situation which would inevitably in-evitably lend to the dlsmcmbermont of China. There can be no more dangerous dan-gerous enemy of the Integrity of the Clilncbo empire, which tho association was formed to maintain and defend, than the man who takes his cue from the Irresponsible Journalism and tho addlepated Jingoism wnlch tries to embitter em-bitter the relations between the powers pow-ers on whose concert of action autonomy au-tonomy of China must depend. In point of speakers the annual dinner promises to bo a notnble celebration, and thcra should be no question of the representation on tho floor being .13 lirtpesslvo and significant us tho representation rep-resentation on the platform." |