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Show uu --PAN DOES NOT .(.WANT TO FIGHT f t Vhtoria, B C Jan. G. Japanese nowipapers received today devoto much space to comments on tho dispatches dis-patches regarding the Inadequacy of tho Pacific coast defenses of tho United Statos. Tho Japanese editors protest against tho inforence ihat Japan is unfriendly to the United States. Collating a number of common ts, tho Eibun Tsusnin, a Tokio news agency, says: "Itj is strange, but true, that the fevon of -.Amerlcaphobla supposed to bo -flfeidapan, is not known in Japan. "It must be stated candidly that Japan is not In n position to fight against a foreign country, be it America Amer-ica or England or Germany. "While wo admit that Japan and America have great interests in China, these interests are of a commercial com-mercial character and will not affect in the least degree the political and commercial positions commanded by both these countries. What reason could thero bo in advocating in any way a war between Japan and America? Amer-ica? Foreigners may bo assured that Japan neither Is at present nor will be yin the future in a fighting mood because all the Japanese in spite of the increasing population and other considerations, find the fact to be that it does not pay to fight with a country which is superior In ever-respect ever-respect to her." |