Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-21
JAPAN READY TO PLEDGE
LASTING FRIENDSHIP
Source Close to, Embassy In Wash
ington Outlines Aims Of Forth
coming Visit of Mission.
TO SEEK NO HELP FROM U. s
Documentary Evidence Will Be Pro.
duced to Show That Germany Has
Spent Vast Sum to Create Ill Feel
ing Between Two Nations.

WASHINGTON. August 2o,-Japan
will stand by the United States to the
end Of tho war. and after.
She will ask no money. no material.
no equipment
She will exchange pledges Of ma
tional. lasting friendship.
She will prove that Germany. in
stead OF seeking to make an ally Of
her. has been trying by propaganda
to cause rupture between Japan and
tho United States.
These are the outstanding aims OF
the forthcoming visit Of the Japanese
mission, which is expected to arrive
hero soon, as they were outlined to-
day by source close to the Japanese
embassy. He made these points:
/. The mission Is one of sentiment.
= Japan. unlike some of tho other
belligerents. is not in the slightest
need OF assistance. either financial
or material. The mission will con-
vince the Washington government of
this.
8. Documentary evidence will be
produced to show that Germany has
spent vast sums in Japan and in the
United States to create i'll feeling and
about a break.
States to the utmost extremity during
hopes to take steps to obliterate In
ternational troublemakers.
GERMAN ACTIVITIES
NOW HAVE BEEN CUT OFF
German pagandists have been I'M
usually busy in the Oriental nation.
but their activities now have been cut
off. The Germans. it was explained. al
ways have predicted that as soon as
the United States became involved in
an open break with Mexico or any
European power, that Japan would
throw her weight in the balance
against the United States. 1t has been
known here for several years that
large amounts of money were being
spent in this country in an effort to
cause disruption of the relations with
Mexico. other money was scattered
throughout Mexico
The expected trouble never hap
pened it was pointed out. The German
charges have had the opposite effect
was concerned
1t is said here tonight upon the
same high authority that the fact that
there has existed d German propaganda
in Japan and in the United States to
array ono country against the other
has been clearly proved by the sudden
cessation of such propaganda since
the United States declared war on Ger
many. Many Germans have been
forced to leave the United States
They also were forced to leave. Japan
when Japan and Germany went to war
JAPAN IS GIVING
ACTIVE COOPERATION
1t is also pointed out here in an
authoritative manner that the German
propaganda, coming from abroad
which has charged that Japan is no,
actively cooperating with and sup.
| porting the allies. is disprovcd by
Tie fact that Japan has a squadron o.
thirteen OF her finest destroycrs in tn,
Mediterranean. and large number O
her finest cruisers patrolling the ocear
routes and conveying ships of the al
lies laden with merchandise from
Australia TO Sucz at which latte
point the destroyers take up the patro
work TO Gibraltar.
The personnel Of the coming mis-
sion. headed by Fiscount lshii. is sucl
as to stimulate the highest interest an,
respect in Washington. Viscoun
Ishii is the former Minister Of Foreig1
Relations and former ambassador L
France. Other leading figures in tn
mission include Licutenant-G Genera
Sugano. representing the Japanes
army; Vice-AdmiraI Takeshita. repre-
scnting the navy. who came TO Wash
ington in 1904 as lieutenant com
mandcr and naval attache at the em
bassy here. and was chief OF the Jap
ancse intelligence service In the Unite
States during the Russo-Japanese Wa,
as well as Masano Hanihara. consul
general to San Francisco, who came [
Washington as third secretary OF EN-
! bassy, and was later made second an
then first secretary, probably one O
tthe most popular and widely know
diplomats who ever lived in Wash