Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-25
BORDER VULNERABLE
 IN CASE OF MAR

A correspondent in Chihuahua sends the Fl Paso Heafd a remark. able communication bearing on the , activity of the Japanese in this sec tion- Enough of this kind of work IS absolutely known to local federal au. thorities to warrant the belief that the Chihuahua man knows what he is talking about. His letter follows: Editor Herald:
 I wonder whether the war depar,- ment of the United States knows one tenth as much about our unprotect- ed southwest border and its approach es through Mexico as does that or Japan.
 For the past nine months, the latter. government has had scouting parties 1 in northern Chihuahua and Sonora studying the boundary, the noun ] tains, trails and passes and making maps of the same.
 More than three hundred have gone down from Juarez to Casa Grande and have thence traveledf on foot all | through the Sierra Madres and all | along the country they say they in the United States
  cross and recross the country above mentioned and many times in the past | few months has encountered many l parties Of the Japs. They usually make the bluff of in euiring the wax to Cananea or Naco- zari or other mining camps, but they are soldiers, and always have some intelligent, capable leader, well pro yided with money
 They have ben obsryed by the Mex jeans many times when they were en- gagged in mapping the country and they have impressed the people of Sonora with the fact that they in tend to land on it's western coast and thence invade the United States. This article is being written m a small pueblo of eastern Sonora; thir 1 ty-two Japs have just passed through coming in from the breaks of the riy- CT Aroe to the southward, in two squads. and going out northward to- ward the line of the United States. At this point they hired some pack burros and saddle animals.
 The first bunch bought mescal on their arrival and inquired for native ! women. Two in conversation declared themselves to be respectfully cap tain and a lawyer. Another told a man that plenty of Americans will die next year in San Francisco and all along the coast and they endeav- ored to get into the good graces of the Mexicans by announcing that they will soon give back to Mexico her lost territory of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
 Another squad to the west of here were seen by herders to engaged in map work.
 They are tickling Uncle Sam un- ey belts next to their body. They have provided thnslyes in some cases with several thousand dollars ir small Mexican bills at the Fl Paso and Juarez banks.
 When Japan begins war with the Americans, as she fully intends iz the near future, according to these Japs, she will expect to catch us unpre- pared, and the first blow will be well driven as our government will be dis posed to take in good faith her pre- tensions of friendship. Japan is steadily and rapidly pre- pairing for war. With whom? She has studied and plated our most vulnerable point. Her represen- 1 tatives, not in diplomatic service. make no pretense of denying that they intend to try an invasion. They are ickling Uncle Sam Ca- der the chin with willy diplomacy and preparing to plant cannon in his back yard
 | California knows the situation anG Is making struggle for existence and self-protection against the Japs now
 as. she did years ago against the Chi
 nese
 To that state we owe our exclusion act, and, but for her determined l stand in the matter, we would now
 have 20,000, 900 Chinese in the United
 States. mere trif1e for China 70 spare.
 I need not ask Texans whether they 1 wish to brother and amalgamate with the yellow races.
 Their intense loyalty~to the white
 race in the past is a gusrcEtoa Of
 their readiness to help maintain white
 supremacy.
 The southwest will do well to keep
 an eye on this matter,
 do not wish to pose as an alarm.
 ist but have simply given facts. L.
 (By a Staff Corespondent)