The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-11
TAPS WILL MAKE CARS ARMS BUT
 WON'T SEND MEN
Nation Pleased to Aid Al lies Baron Kato Pre-
 diets Slow Victory.

ToEao. Oct s-Munitions- men for Russia-that is the great need of the Entente Allies today, say Japanese officials. The authorities have repeatedly denied reports that Russie, has asked for troops and that ! an will send troops. They are CO., eealtrating their efforts on the big problem of increasing the output or
 munitions for Russia
 The decision to enlarge government arsenmla and even establish special factories pleases the military circles of Japan who see in this an opportun- ity not only to help Russia and has- ten the end of the war but to create the means of increasing their own permanent production. It signifies military expansion without the neces- sity of a home campaign. Now that arsenals are to be placed on a war footing the enIargeTnents will remain for future use and thus the actual ernanaion of military equipment will have been effected without attracting the notice of the police This IS cause of great satisfaction to the mil itarv interests. It is understood that regular payments for the cost of the increased production will be made III London-in cash. thus augment1ng the gold reserve held by the Japan ese government.
 Public opinion heartily endorses the seroyernment's decision to place all its resources at the disposal of the AL nes-in the way of furnishing aInmu- hilton and general supplies
 sSThere is not moments hesita- lion says the Japan Times, voicing the sentiments of the Japanese press. s.fn making a prompt response to this demand for help from Russia It is the voice. of a friend in need To the fullest capacity of our arsenals, fac tories and workshops, national or prt- vate, we will help our friend Japan is proud to be shown where and how she can help-
 Referring to the impracticability of ganding troops the newspaper said: seWe know full wei that our friends. our Allies, will not ask or expect this country to take the bread from the mouths of our children, to leave the recovery for this country impossible. These are the only limits we set to the share we are prepared to take in the great struggle in which our friends are fnvoEved.''
 Great interest is attached here to references to the European war just made by Baron Takaaki Kato, ex- Foreign Minister, in series of politi- cal addresses, because Baron Kato di- rected the foreign policies of Japan during the first year of the war. Ar vofczng Japan's desire to help the AL lies with Increased ammunition the ex-1ninister intimafed his belief that Japan,s physical capacity was insufh- cfenf to meet the needs of Russia st11l Japan would do all she could
 Turning to the war itself, Baron Kato expressed the opinion that al though Germany has been prepared to a degree of perfection beyond the1 0f %a 1a strength has passed its zenith and henceforth will begin to decay.
 The statesman had something to eay of France and Great Britain and undoubtedly voiced the prevailing sen tfment among Japanese. France he declared, "has brought her poten- tiaI power into play at last, but Bri- tain has not yet reused her dormant power to action. Though many no- I1bIernen in England have rallied around the colors some of the popu- lace apparently dc not take much in terest in the life and death struggle in which the nation has been plung ed" This state of things. the Baron observed, was in sharp contrast to conditions in Japan where the peo- Iple in general have played the main and decisive part in two great wars. He believed the present war to be one of exhaustion and expressed his tunWE1yCIA44E CO11NAOI1O LA41I lAAO 1144ACo would win.
 He was impatient, he said. with 1 Japanese a1a,rnists who were obsessed 1 with the absurd idea that Germany l will become mistress of the world in | the long run and eventually descend upon the Far East, seeking retalia- 1 ,tion from Japan.
 Baron Kato talked very plainly as i to why Japan would not send troops to the European theatres of war. Such a thing" he said. '.is an i'm possibility, to say nothing of the com Dlete absence of a proper causus l belIi." He continued.
 "Aecording to experts a large num- ber of troops would be needed but | we have no ships to transport large numbers, This difficulty might be | overcome by a special agreement with | the Allied powers for the supply of | tIleir own transports but another and still more serious difficulty is the financing of such a step. The ex- penditure would amount to thousandst of millions of yen per annum, How could such an enormous sum be rais- ed National honor prevents us from fighting at the expense of eth CTS Assuming that Japan resorts to loans for the purpose, how could she 1 raiEe or redeem such Ieans?"
 The general feeling in tfe vari- els walks of Japanese life is that it would be uaWise for Japan to risk it's |