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Show I JAPAN IS STIRRED BY ELECTION NEWS There waa no country mom deeply concerned over the outcome of Tuesday's balloting ihn Japan, and the dispatches from Toki 3tatr that the news, published in full in the papers, was received with surprise. Two hit; iuestnins were r answered. What would California Califor-nia do with Japanese lam I holdings ami what would America do with the League ol nations .' Both replies were disappointing to the Jap anese Like the French papers the Jap-.n- se . dijoj-s are somewha guarded in their utterances as though they fully realize they arc dealing with a giant in full armor. The Ji.ii Shimpo expresses the opinion that Mr. Harding is more unfavorably inclined toward Japan than Governor Cox, but says his attitude probably will be modified when in offii e Yurozu Choho calls on the government to protest formally against the anti-Japanese legislation, and that is the strongest note of resentment sounded bj the press. Rut all the papers of Japan express disappointment. Jiji Shimpo Shim-po says President Wilson's exemption of the Monroe doctrine reduced re-duced the league '8 effectiveness 50 per cent and that if Mr. Harding Hard-ing makes further reservations the league will be seriously imperilled, im-perilled, If that be true, then the league is not only imperilled but smashed, for, in his first speech since election, President-elect War reu (i. Harding told his In. me folks lasi evening that the Versailles league of nations is '"now deceased," although there might he a new international association founded on peace and justice. In voting In 4834)15 to ICo.Tol to restrict tenure of land by nonassimilable non-assimilable alien;, California has brought before the entire country the problem of our relations with Japan, iucluding the question of Japanese immigration and land holding. This international controversy has a direct bearing on Ogden. With uncertainties developing, the government is forced, not as a threat or even as a forecasting ol anj fixed attitude toward Japan, to prepare for the most unfavorable outcome ol the issue and in doing do-ing so must hasten work on the Ogden arsenal and enlarge the plans which would make Ogden the inner line of defense of the Paciffi coast. This preparedness cannot be blocked by the plea for economy as it is imperative America should be ready for any emergency which might bring about a menace to the Bceuritj and welfare o the nation. |