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Show SECRET JAPANESE PATH OF LABORERS IS BARED TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 6 Reltorat-Ing Reltorat-Ing the statement as to the existence of what he termed an organized system sys-tem of smuggling Japanese into the 1'nlted States, Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the house committee com-mittee on Immigration and naturalization, naturaliza-tion, tonight said ho would submit evidence first to the department of state and labor. Within six hours of the issuance of his firat statement on the subject, eight Japanese, he said, wore taken from the liner Eastern Temple at Seattle in an attempt to Illegally enter the United States and two others escaped es-caped In a row boat. Ho said such Incidents were proof that Japanese were illegally entering the country but addeil the opinion that the Japanese government was ignorant of the routes used. . oo |