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Show NEW YORK JAPANESE ARE NOT ALARMED New York, Feb. 5. Prominent Japanese Jap-anese residents of the city are inclln ed to view calmly the agitation agi-tation against their race In tho Pacific coast and like the conservative 'clement In Japan, do not think that the California asscmbly In passing a bill excluding Japanese pupils from the public schools represents repre-sents the general feeling In the United States. L. Koklch Mlsuro, the Japanese Japan-ese cousul general here, declined to piake any formal statement concerning concern-ing the vote of the California assembly, assem-bly, but several well-to-do Japanese merchants express their views. R. Sato, one of the best known members mem-bers of the Japanese colony In this city, a graduate of Harvard and a man who has business correspondents In California, said: "Letters from California and Nevada Ne-vada tell me that the members of the legislatures of those states, who are bent on phowlng antagonism to the Japanese do not really represent the feeling of the people of those state. The number of these agitators Is growing grow-ing less dally. If they had waited until un-til next week to take a vote on the legislative measures directed against the Japanese, I doubt If any of the bills would have passed. Nobody can tell what the offset of this legislation will be." |