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Show JAPANESE DON'T COVET PHILIPPINES. HE SAYS MANILA. P, I.. Aug. 25. (Corre-rpordencr.i (Corre-rpordencr.i Japan has no political ambitions In Hie Philippine Islands. Professor . sf a tsunami of the Impe-rlaJ Impe-rlaJ i nlveralty of TnXlo declared in rei cut address beiv before the stu- dents of the University of the Philip-pint Philip-pint Piofesi.sor Matsunami spoke on the subject. "Japanejip Expansion. ' and 'ouched on the reported statements of Representative Charles H Randall of California, and othev members of the American congressional party, win. h Wis here recently, in which the were quoted as laying that Japan was one of the chief stumbling blocks in (he waj of granting independence to the .stands. "Even If the Japanese desired to occupy the Philippines, they would find the task far greater than that Which attended American occupation twenty-two years a?o." he .'aid. "In fact, It would be Insuperable, for the PUlplnos would never submit to a power which Is distinctly non-Chrls-llon. nor would the Christian nations f the world permit the aggression " oo |