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Show JAPAN IS NOT m WAR Her Solution for Trouble With United States Is Arbitration Chicago, Feb. 8. The Reconl-Her-aid today prints the following on the. antl Japanese agitation from a Bpec-lal Bpec-lal correspondent at Washington, .under .un-der date of February 7: " ' "Arbitration is Japan's solution for all the questions which may be raised rais-ed between that nation and the United Unit-ed States by' the action of state legislatures leg-islatures on the Pacific coast, "This is Japan's answer to "-the theory that trouble with tho United States is Imminent, and that even war would not be unwelcomo If the rights of Japan subjects in American are too far encroached upon. . "The determination of Japan to maintain peace and to have none but an amicable adjustment of all controversies, con-troversies, became more than ever apparent ap-parent In official circles here today, when It was disclosed that arbitration ib the policy of the Japanese government. govern-ment. "If, through the action of western legislatures, the treaty rights of Japanese Jap-anese subjects shall be violated and the American government Is not able to force treaty obligations on account of the peculiar dual system of government govern-ment In our country, It is semlofficial-ly semlofficial-ly announced that the Toklo government govern-ment will propose to the United States that the questions at issue be submitted submit-ted to the International court of arbitration arbi-tration at The Hague. Whether or not tho United States government would assent to such submission, is another question not to be determined until the. need arises, which it la hoped hop-ed will never be. "It was learned today rn diplomatic circles that the British government Is much alarmed over the fierceness of the anti-Japanese sentiment rife among the people of British Columbia. Ambassador Bryce has been Informed that the situation there Is threatening, n-nd that outbreaks of violence against the Asiatics are considered probable. The ambassador Is cabling his government, govern-ment, and It thus appears that England, Eng-land, as well as America, has a Japanese Jap-anese question on her hands." |