Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-10
Japs Preparing
 for Colonization
 of South America

Buenos Aires, Feb 9.-Some Ar genuine newspapers are calling at tention to what they regard as indi- cations that the Japanese are pre- pairing the way for an extensive col cnization program in South Ameri- ca as we'll as seeking on this con tinent a larger market for their goods. The matter has attracted considerable attention in diplomatic and commercial circles.
 The treaty with Paraguay, which the Japanese minister to Chile cross ed the continent to sign at Asuncion gives Japan favored nation privi- privileges, including the right oi colonization. Discussing this treaty Paraguay's finance minister, Fuse bio Ayala. said that one of the ob- jects of Japan was to provide fol colonization in this country. He added that Paraguay, which is 3 country the size of California with only a million inhabitants and 3 wonderful capacity for agricultural development, would welcome the Ja- panese. It is now reported that 3 similar treaty is being negotiated with Uruguay
 In furtherance of this supposed colonization plan in South America Japanese capitalists. according te the newspaper, La Razon, have re, gently acquired enormous tracts o1 agricultural lands in northern Perr and Bolivia.
 Those in Bolivia are said to bt 1, 300 miles square; those in Pert 20 900 miles square. It is also saie that Japanese capitalists have in vested recently in the exploitation of tin mines in Bolivia and the pro
 lection of railways which they art preparing to construct and operate "There is no doubt" said La Ra son. "that there already exists vas1 plan of Japanese colonization II Peru and Bolivia, plan which con
 sidering the very dispersed native population and their relative inca nacity for certain kinds of work, l; susceptible to very rapid devel onmer,t. and to such an extent tha practically very soon Japan vii count three large nuclei of interests in South America: Sac Paulo, il Brazil. where enormous quantities O.
 coffee are produced and exported t' l the Far East; the department of Ia i ria. in Bolivia, and the province O
 Loreto in Peru. Ut is also practically certain tha' in order to satisfy the needs O these colonization centers, an actlv' | commercial interchange will be es l tablished, but the proportions o
 this economic expansion are not linn i ited to this.
 aJapan, according to one of it most authorized newspapers, +
 thinking out very ample conner | cial program and nobody ought tt he surprised if within the next tel
 or twenty years it's South Amerlca1 1 trade were far ahead of the majorlt.
 of the other nations, as she IS work ling for this unceasingiy. aThese initiatives and tendencle' are worthy of consideration, as they constitute new phase, perhaps th' most interesting one for us, of th' rivalry between the Empire of tht
 Rising Sun and the Northern Repub
 lie"
 activity in this part of South Amer ica includes the arrival here of
 Japanese agricultural commercial mission a few months ago which Il
 co operating with an active Japan csc Chamber of Commerce in bue ! nos Aires.
 Japanese business men are arrlV ing bv many routes. including th' l Japanese steamship line. One ol th'
 most recent arrivals coming by th'
 way of the United States IS Schln I fire Ushikoshi, commercial expert O 1 the Japanese Department of Com merce and Export.
 He is making a six-months tour o South American countries to stud!
 consumption needs and also repre- sents important Japanese financia interests desiring to invest capita lin South America.