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Show JAPAN HAS HAD ENOUGH OE WAR SAYS IT IS UNNECESSARY FOR AMERICA TO FORTIFY. Special Dispatches From California to Japanese Papers Cause Uneasiness Uneasi-ness Among the Populace. Tokio. Feb. 20. The special correspondence corre-spondence to the Asal from Its San Francisco correspondent continues to represent the situation as most alarming. alarm-ing. These specials claim that the anti-Japanese sentiment is. rapidly spreading, and that the war reeling in America is . general. The specials, widely circulated and copied, contribute contrib-ute to sustain the feeling of uneasiness uneasi-ness among the Japanese people. The Nlchl Nlchl, a paper owned by K. Kato, the Japanese ambassador to England, which commented with great bitterness during the earlier stages of the anti-Japanese legislation by the California legislature In a lengthy editorial edi-torial on the anti-Japanese sentiment in America, published today, says: "Americans continue to regard Japan Ja-pan with suspicion and this ill feeling" feel-ing" continues notwithstanding' the efforts ef-forts of the Japanese government and people to prove the sincerity and cordiality cor-diality of their feelings. This distrust extends throughout Europe. It is incomprehensible in-comprehensible to our people why America and Europe continues to regard re-gard Japan as seeking war. Two wars were sufficient. We want peace in the future. War with America could only be forced by the United States threatening threat-ening the Independence of Japan. It is unnecessary for America to fortify . itself against Japan." The editorial concludes by quoting the text of the Roosevelt telegram to the California legislature expressing the belief that tho passage of the bill would lead to serious consequences. Tho paper contends that this mes-sage mes-sage shows that even the federal government gov-ernment regarded war as probable, 1 but it was utterly mistaken. |