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Show JAPAN TO ATTACK KIAO CHOW ONLY Decision to Localize Opera tions Narrows Kange ot Conflict in Far East. Washington. Aug. IS. Japan's d termination to localize her operations against Germany to Kiao Chow and the China seas without extending them to the wide range ot Germanj B extensive possessions throughout the I Pacific, gives distant relief to officials 1 here as narrowing the range of conflict con-flict In the Far Basl within definite llne. More particularly, it is felt to overcome over-come some apprehensions in military i quarters that a contest, once begun al Kiao Chow, might develop into one for predominance in the Pacific ocean should Japan, in the prosecution of a war, seek to take over Germany's long chain of islands extending well across the Pacific it now is known from authoriative Japanese Quarters here that.Japans1 purposes are directed against Kiao! Chow and have no present purpose. to1 extend eastward Into the Pacific |