Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1927 — Page 13

FEB. 25, 1927

JAPAN CONSIDERS ’ •WAR SCARE TALK i AS NEAR INSULT Testimony at Oil Conspiracy Test Held of No Benefit to U. S. Bti United Press TOKIO, Feb. 25.—Open charges that Japan planned an aggressive war against the United States in 1921, made in connection with the oil scandal trials in America, have caused widespread popular resentment in Japan. They are considered untrue and part of a general irritating campaign which can be of no benefit to Japanese-American relations. The masses feel that E. M. Doheny’s charge that he entered into the Elk Hills leases and the Hawaiian storage project to prevent the United States from “being invaded like Belgium,’’ are little short of an insult to this country. Tha United Press correspondent talked to scores of Japanese during the Fall-Doheny trial and found this a fair approximation of their opinion. If a similar defense is carried out in the trial of Fall and Harry Sinclair, in connection with the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve Sinclair’s Mammoth Oil Company, certain that Japanese irritation 'will be considerably increased. Plea Not New Japan herself is familiar with a plea of “patriotism” as a defense for violation of the law. Such pleas have been used in scores of cases in this country. However, under present conditions, it is very unlikely that any Japanese would attempt, or be allowed, to endanger Japanese-Amer-ican friendship by dragging accusations into a court proceeding as was done in the Fall-Doheny trial in Washington. %he Osaka Mainichi, which often is plain-spoken on the subject of relations, sees the American oil scandal trials as “derogatory” to the National prestige and honor of the United States. “It should be borne in mind," the Mainivhi declares, “that Japan is represented as the origin of these incidents (the oil leases.) This would seem to reflect shame upon the United States rather than Japan. The American authorities are represented as having been apprehensive that Japan was preparing a war upon the United States, and because of-this misapprehension they leased naval oil fields and constructed storage facilities for their Pacific fleet in Hawaii, at the same time cunningly availing themselves of an opportunity for personal enrichment. They were, in spite of their dishonesty, so insolent as to hold Japan

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responsible for the occurrence of the scandals. This is wonderful logic. “It appears to be an American propensity to look upon themselves as absolutely good and to represent others as always mistaken and insincere.” The Mainichi interprets Dohen’s testimony at his trial in Washington as indicating the Washington conferences was called to “coerce Japan into humiliation and disgrace, and in this connection it sees the very

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national honor of America as endangered.' Held Blow to U. S. “From all points of view,” the newspaper asserts, “the oil scandals have dealt a severe blow to the United States. Aside from the question of justice and other international moral principles it is indicated America called the Washington conferences for ulterior purposes." On the whole Japenese feel they exercised an admirable restraint during 1926 on matters affecting Japa-nese-American relations. They recall a report in the American press on the basis of apparently false Reports that a Japanese syndicate was negotiating purchase of a huge land tracts near Magdalene Bay, Mexico. The obvious point to the story, as printed in American papers, was that Japan was trying to get control of a strip of the Mexican Pacific coast for naval strategic purposes. The Japanese asset this story, was utterly false and that it was harmful to this country in that it furnished GOSSIP, THEN POISONING Woman Dopes Food for Herself and Children. Bu United Press TOKIO, Feb. 25.—The tongue of gossip caused Mrs. Toshi Karasawa, 40, to poison herself and her six children at her home in Matsusshima recently, police investigation revealed. Mrs. Karasawa was the widow of a local banker who committed suicide after sale of his bank to a larger institution last year. She struggled for months in an effort to support her family and to still the gossip which persisted insistently in every narrow street of Matsusshlma. Finally, in despair, the widow mixed strychnine with rice cakes which she ate with her children. Neighbors found the bodies huddled around a stqve.

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