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Show uu JAPAN TO FIGHT ONLYJN EAST Military Acts of Japanese Are Explained by Embassy in Washington. Washington, 0-t. 6 Japan has no design to violate in any sense the undertaking un-dertaking she gae at the beginning of the war to confine her military operations to the Far East, the Japanese Jap-anese embassy here announced today, and the landing of Japanese bluejackets blue-jackets on Jalult Islands, one of the. Marshall group of German Pacific Islands. Is-lands. Is regarded at the embassy here as fully within the 6Cope of the pledge Without direct advices from Toklo on the subject, the officials are confident con-fident that the sole purpose of the Japanese landing In the Marshall Islands Is-lands was to protect commerce, a privilege specially reserved in the Japanese undertaking. It Is known that Jalult had been a base for German Ger-man cruisers in the South Pacific, which were preying on British and Japanese commerce It was said too that large quantities of supplies had been gathered there by the German government j According to the understanding here, the Japanese have no purpose or desire to retain possession of the Marshall group, as was evident by the destruction of the German fortifications, forti-fications, arms and ammunition found there which certainly would have been retained If the Japanese designed design-ed to establish themsehes perma-uently. perma-uently. As soon as further use of Jalult as a German base of supplies has been rendered impossible. It Is expected that the islands will be vacated by the Japanese, though a cruiser may be left on guard there, or al'owed to pass into British posses slon as was German Samoa. Chinese Question Explained. Cable advices from Tokio to the embassy bearing on the complication that has arisen between China and Japan oer the seizure by the latter of the Shan Tung railway, set forth tho Japanese contention that this action ac-tion was no more lu violation of China Chi-na neutrality than was the landing in tho neighborhood of Tsinp-Tau Railroad Owned by Germany. Though nominally owned by a private pri-vate corporation, it la declared that tho railroad was actually a German governmental property and as such wus subject to seizure by Japaneso as much ans anv part of tho German property or fortifications at Tslng-Tau. Tslng-Tau. The railroad also was said to bo absolutely necessary to the development de-velopment of the Japanese plan of campaign against the German naval station and its outlving defense The Chinese government itself was declared to be thoroughly conversant with these facts and disposed to make no issue with Japan on them further than It regards afl necessary to place on record the fact that It has striven to be absolutely neutral in order to avoid possible future punishment at the hand6 of Germany in the event that the matter should in the end' prcve to be victorious |