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Show JAPS HAVE EXTENSIVE COLOBi PROGRAM Given Favored Nation Privilege Privi-lege by Paraguay and Now Seeking Same in Uruguay BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 6. Some Argentine- newspapers aro calling attention at-tention to what they regard as indications indica-tions that the Japanese are prepnrlng the way for an extensive colonization program in South America as well as seeking on this continent a larger market mar-ket for their goods. The matter has attracted considerable attention in diplomatic di-plomatic and commercial circles. The treaty with Paraguay, which the Japanese minister to Chile crossed the continent lo sign at Asuncion, gives Japan favored privileges including includ-ing the right of colonization. Discussing Discus-sing this treaty, Paraguay's Finance Minister Euseblo Ayala, said that cne of the objects of Japan was to provide for colonization in this country. He added that Paraguay, which Is a country coun-try tho size of California, with only a million inhabitants and a wonderful capacity for agricultural development, would welcome the Japanese, It is now reported that a similar treaty Is being negotiated with Uruguay. Enormous Areas Acquired In furtherance of this supposed colonization col-onization plan in South America, Japanese Jap-anese capitalists, according to the newspaper, La Rnzon, have recently acquired enormous tracts of agricultural agricul-tural lauds In northern Peru and Bolivia. Bo-livia. Those in Bolivia are said to zo 1800 miles square; thoso in Peru 20,000 miles square. It Is also said that Japanese Jap-anese capitalists havo Invested recently recent-ly In the exploitation of tin mines in Bolivia and the projection of railways which they are preparing to construct ;ind operate. Vast Plan of Colonization "There Is no doubt," says La Razon, 'that there already exists a vast plan 3f Japanese colonization in Peru and : Bolivia, a plan which considering the iory dispersed native population and ihelr relative incapacity for certain rcinds of work, is susceptible to a very apld development, and to such an ex-ent ex-ent that practically very soon Japan A'ill count three largo nuclei of Inter-?sts Inter-?sts in South America: Soa Paulo, n Brazil, where enormous quantities )f coffee are produced and exported :o the Far East; the department of rarija, in Bolivia, and the province of -orelo In Peru. "It is also practically certain that n order to satisfy the "needs of those colonization centers, an active com- nercial interchange will be establish-?d. establish-?d. but the proportions of this ccon-miic ccon-miic expansion are not limited to this. Ample Commercial Program "Japan," according to one of its nost authorized newspapers, is think-j ng out a very ample commercial pro- , gram ana nonoay ougnt to De surprised surpris-ed if within the next ten or twenty years, its South American trade were far ahead of the majority of the other nations, as she is working for this unceasingly. un-ceasingly. "These initiatives and tendencies arc worthy of conslderaUon as they constitute consti-tute a new phase, perhaps the most interesting in-teresting one for use, of the rivalry between the Empire of the Rising Sun jand (he Northern Republic." i The record of Japanese business ac-itivitl ac-itivitl in this part of South America includes in-cludes tho arrival here of a Japaneso Agricultural Commercial mission a few months ago which is co-operating with an active Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires. Japanese business men are arriving by many routes, including the Japanese Japan-ese steamship line. One of the most recent arrivals coming by the way or the United States, is Schinjire Ushi-koshl. Ushi-koshl. commercial expert of the Japanese Japan-ese department of commerce and export. ex-port. He is making a six months' tour of South American countries lo study consumption needs and also represent improtant Japanese financial. Interests desiring to Invest capital "in South America no |