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Show ! WAR WITH U. S. SUICIDE, JAPANESE HOLD WISE MEN OF I NIPPON POilT I OUT DANGERS I War Means Loss of Japan H Foreign Trade and Almost Certain Defeat H UNITED STATES WOULD H GAIN BY SUCH MOVE B Wide Publicity Given to Mili- H tary Articles on Possible Strife H TOKIO, Sept. 24 (By the Assocl- aled Press.) Suggestions that a Joint PH high commission be appointed to find a solution of the California iiroblem l ;.. to be favored in responsible PH i In lea here. Viscount Kentaro Ran-eko, Ran-eko, privj councillor, Viscount Kllchl ShibusaWa, chairman ot tho Toklo Bankers' association, and Premier PH Hara have bean conferring frequently and the impression has been gained PH that the proposition for a Joint com- PH j mission was the outgrowth ot meet- PH IngS of prominent Americans and Jap- anese in this city last spring. DEI Mis Mil GTV1 S. T Details of the plan are as yet nebu-lous, nebu-lous, but the Asabl Shlmbun, of Asaka lays the underlying Ides is for Presir I dent Wilson to name a commission In- PH .clutliiig the secretory of state, some 'senators ami representatives, and also PH well qualified Japanese Ilk viscount iTakaak' Kato, former Japanese am- PH Ibassador to Great Britain. Succeed- I t ling steps, 'he. newspaper says, would I be Japanese Insistence upon treaty vH rights ami then un appeal to tho su-(preme su-(preme court ot the I nited States, ask-jlng ask-jlng that operation of I'ailfornla Stat-jutes Stat-jutes be suspended. The newspapers JH belieye the Japanese public Is general- H ly pessimistic over present negotla-lions negotla-lions In Washington and has a tendon-cy tendon-cy to criticize the cabinet for adopting what is declared to bi u "lukewarm, M make -shift policy.' ,9! PEERS QUOTED. JBft Lrnnam'ed peers arc iuoted by the rl newspaper Ohu-Ho Shlmbtip of this r 0H3 as counselling the govet-nment to I exercise the greatest patience in deal-ling deal-ling with America, as they are posi- live any other attitude would bosui-I bosui-I t idal They point out that if she rc-sorted rc-sorted to arms. Japan's first step would in. necessarily the withdrawal PB of all Japanese In America, which, they assert "would greatly please Am-erica Am-erica " Suspension of commercial in-tercourse in-tercourse would not have the most dire consequences to Japan, they declare, ind li la pan should succeed In land-Ing land-Ing troops on American soil, the Am-Orleans Am-Orleans would not suffer as much as the Japanese. WOl M -I i. FATE. HP' They point out that shoubl Japan suffer defeat, her fate would be sealed ami therefore it would be the wisest to await a favorable turn in the sltua- jtion placing full confidence in the character and principles of the Amer-lean Amer-lean people. A series ot' articles writ-ten writ-ten i. Generul Kojlro Sato, In which m&A-he m&A-he discusses the military josslbilltles PPPJ if Japan should go to war with Amer- i lea, are being given wide publicity. |