Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-22
GERMANS TRIED TO ESTRANGE
 AMERICA AND JAPAN
Visoount ishii Says the Zimmerman
 Note Gave Japan . Clue.

Washington, Sept. 21.-German in-
 trisue and propaganda, cleverly ap; a full understanding between AIneri- ca and Japan, Viscount Ishii, head of
 the Japenese Mission to the United
 States. declared in an address here
 The Zimmerman note to Mexico tn- | volving Japan gave a clue to the secret agencies at work to part the east and the west, the viscount said, but even the noise of this diplomatic 'sblund-
 CT" by Berlin gave a check only for
 a time.
 T am confident that some day, and I sincerely trust the day is not far estly endeavor to present the truth will be opened and that the truth about Japan and America will be re- vealed to all the world" the viscount said. When that day comes you and all men will know how cleverly the work of deception has been carried on and how long we have listened to lies about the ambitions and the ideals of the east and the west.
 Worked to Create Distrust.
 For more than ten years propa- ganda has been carried on in this country, in Japan and in fact through out the world for the one and sole purpose of keeping nations of the Far East and Far West as far apart as possible, to create distrust, suspicion and unkindly feeling, all in order that Germany might secure advantage in the confusion.
 "The world was flooded with tales of Japan's military aspirations and Ja- pans duplicity. Have these been borne out by history? Even now the Ger man publicity agent whispers first in your ear and then in mine. To the accompaniment of appeals to the hu- man heart, he tells to me stories of your duplicity and to you of mine.
 German Agents Still at Work.
 These agents have been supplied with unlimited resources. No wonder we have been deceived. A short time ago, bad blunder gave a clue. The Zimmerman note to Mexico, involving Japan was blunder. It made such noise that we were disturbed in our slunbers and so were you. This gave a check for time, but since then they were at work yesterday and they are work today. Every. prejudice every sympathy, every available argu- ment has been appealed to and used to show to your people and to our what a low cunning enemy we have in the other, and how much dependent we are upon the future friendship, support and good will of Germany.
 Now gentlemen, you might expect me to say something about the object of my mission in reply to suggestions made continually in the newspapers, who get the truth from the high au-
 
 friends of the administration one might inquire from what fountainhead these intimate informations come. I have not told anyone what I have said ] had with the officials in Washington and I do not believe for a moment that ] the high officials have told anyone ] either. Yet these informants have the !! are after. We are told that we have l come to Washington when the whole l world is at war; when all the world i is in need of disinterested friendships; l such a time, you are told that we i come here to trade; that we come as l. to ask a price for our assistance in this war.
 "Gentlemen. is this a charge you want | me to asnwer? Answer it yourselves, | out of your own honest mems hearts.
 A Piece of Secret History.
 Let me tell you piece of secret When it becaihe known to us that the American and British gov were alike desirous of enter ing into a general treaty of arbitra- ton, but that they found the making of such a treaty was prec1uded by the terms of the British alliance with Japan, as they then stood, it was not with the consent of Japan, but it was because of Japan's spontaneous offer, that the stipulations of the alliance were revised so that no obstacle might be put in the way of the pro- posed treaty, now in effect, excludes the United States from it's operation This is true account of the genesis of that clause. It was Japan's own dea-her own contribution to the cause of universal peace.
 ''Now, if Japan had the remotest in ,ention of appealing to arms against how could she thus voluntar- fly have renounced the all-important cooperation of Great Britain? It would have been wildly Quixotic.
 War With America UnthinLabIe.
 There is, one may surely be safe in saying. only one way to interpret this attitude of Japan. It is a most signal ! indeed any proof is needed ! hat to the Japan government and na- ion anything like armed conflict with America is simply unthinkable." Ii