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Show JAPAN'S STATUS liflTII IJUPTlIin A German Paper Tries to Explain Ex-plain Plans of United States in Far East. CRAFTY DIPLOMACY Declares Big American Fleet Is Not for Use Now But With Japanese. AMSTERDAM, via London, April 9, 8:05 a. m. Under the caption, "The bitter bit," Sunday's Koeinische Volks-zeitung Volks-zeitung prints an article under a Berlin date which purports to explain ex-plain America's plans In the Far East It says: "The antagonism between America and Japan arose over China, but Washington proved craftier than To-kio To-kio and forced China to break with Germany, by which action Japan, like Esau, was cheated of its rights as the first born. President Wilson realized the importance of Chinese and Japanese Jap-anese questions better than any of his predecessors nnd adopted a strong pol icy in support of the prestige of the United States, a policy which also be-camo be-camo anti-Gorman. Wilson Policy Not Pro-Brltlsh. "It would bo wrong to attribute this policy to pro-Britishism. During the war President Wllosn pursued an American Am-erican policy above all, to which is ascrlbable America's huge development develop-ment in the production of armaments. Every child knows that no one in Germany Ger-many thought of the possibility of a German-American war. President Wilson Wil-son himself hardly seriously contemplated contem-plated a German danger, but did contemplate con-template a Japanese danger. Thin is also fully understood in Tokio." America's Giant Army and Fleet. Tho article says that on the surface nothing is more natural than Amorlca should equip a giant army and fleet It continues: "They are not for use, however, in this war, during which they will practically prac-tically not lire a shot, but for use afterward af-terward against Japan. Thus our enemies en-emies play with their own allies tho game of 'The bitter bit, with Japan acting in tho leading part" |