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Show JAPAN DOUBTS ASSERTIONS Of U. S. LAWMAKER Feeling Toward America Increased In-creased by Charges of Wholesale Smuggling PROOF OF ALLEGATIONS IS WANTED IN T0KI0 Statesmen Declare They Think Representative Must Be Mistaken in Case T"KIO. Aug. 5. (By The Associated Associ-ated Press) The statement of t.'on-gres.imnn t.'on-gres.imnn Albert Johnson at Tacoma. waeh.. August 2. that thousands of Japanese are smuggled Into the I'nlt-ed I'nlt-ed States from Japan yearly, Is giving giv-ing evidences of n tendency to Increase In-crease the feeling with regnrd to the I'nlted States created b. tho arrival of the recent American note and subsequent sub-sequent newspaper attacks against America. With reference to the statement of Congressman Johnson, who is chairman chair-man of the house sub-committee of Immigration and naturalization and has been recently conducting an inquiry in-quiry Into the Japanese situation on the Pacific coast, the foreign office Uuiay mad" tile following sfn rmeiT " "Ve can only express surprise at the extraordinary statement made by Congressman Con-gressman Johnson at Tacoma. De-tnils De-tnils of the scheme-, as outlined by Mr Johnson, appear fantastic and most Improbable. While solitary cases of smuggling come to our notice from time to time, it is unimaginable that such an involved and intricate program pro-gram as described by Mr. Johnson should be systematically practiced by any group of Individuals or organization. organiza-tion. The Japanese government would rladly co-operate with the American government ln exposing any such II-legltlmait II-legltlmait and underhanded system. It is hoped that Mr. Johnson will give the names of the banks, associations or Individuals concerned. All such information must be In the hands of Mr Johnson, who otherwise would not have made the statement." JAPAN PROTESTS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. Denial that Japanese authorities and in particular par-ticular the Japanese consul at Los Angeles had connived in the smuggling smug-gling uf Japanese into the I'nited Si ites ai r...- the Mexican border vv.ii made today 1S the Japanese embassy. The following formal statement h;h Issued : "A .statement hax appeared ln the press of thi- Pacific coast that many thousands of Japanese are smuggled Into the I'nlted States yearly aerobe the Mexican border with the connivance conniv-ance of the Japanese authorities and particularly of the Japanese consul at I .os Angeley it should be apparent to well-informed observers "hat the Japanese authorities have never been a party to such illicit proceedings. It Is highly regrettable that a totisular officer who has been executing his duties conscientiously for nearly ten yt ,i rs In this COUntrj Is made the ot4 ject of such an abuse without any actual ac-tual facts whatever ln support of the che rge." rn |