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Show iUW CUNNING OF GERMMH WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. German intrigue and propaganda, cleverly applied ap-plied in both countries, have prevented prevent-ed a full understanding between America Amer-ica and Japan, Viscount Jshii, head of the Japanese mission to tho United States, declared in an address here last night at tho National Press club. The Zimmerman note to Mexico Involving In-volving Japan gave a cluo to the secret se-cret agencies at work to part the east and the west, tho viscount said, but even the noise of this diplomatic "blunder" by Berlin gave a check only for a time. "Since then the agents have been hard at work," the vlBcount continued. "They were at work yesterday and they are at work today. Every prejudice, preju-dice, every sympathy, every available argument has been appealed to and used to show to your people and to ours what a low, cunning enemy we have each in the other and how much dependent we are upon tho future support sup-port and good will of Germany." Viscount Ishii said that in all countries coun-tries today fraud, deception, treachery and all the forces of evil are wearing disguises most difficult to penetrate and that he regretted deeply to say that owing to this difficulty the newspapers news-papers in both America and Japan, inadvertently, in-advertently, he believed, had delayed the "Inevitable understanding" between be-tween the two nations. oo |