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Show JAPAN MAY OPEN .WABJN KAISER ADVISES GERMANY TO WITHDRAW WITH-DRAW FROM JAPANESE AND CHINESE WATERS AT ONCE. Ultimatum Giving Germany Until August Au-gust 23 to Comply With Demand is Expected By Japanese to Result in War. Tokio. Japan sent an ultimatum to Germany Saturday night at 8 o'clock, demanding the withdrawal of German warships from the orient an.! the evacuation of Kiau-Chau, and giving Germany until Sunday, August Au-gust 23, to comply with the demand. Otherwise, the ultimatum states, Japan Ja-pan will take action. The general expectation here is that the ultimatum will be followed by war. Takaaki Kato, the Japanese foreign for-eign minister, simultaneously with the dispatch of the ultimatum, conferred con-ferred with George W. Guthrie, the. American ambassador, and made to him a broad statement calculated to assure the United States that American Ameri-can interests in the far east would be safeguarded and the integrity of China upheld. Owing to doubts whether communications communi-cations with Berlin were assured, Japan Ja-pan in order to insure the arrival of the ultimatum forwarded it to Berlin Ber-lin by six channels, including Washington, Wash-ington, London and Stockholm. The government also notified Count von Rex, German ambassador to Japan, and likewise retarded the time limit for a reply until August 23. |