The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-04
JAPANESE PLAN BIC PROGRAM IN
 SOUTH AMERICA
Argentine Newspaper Warn of Colonization and
 Other Activities

Buenos Aires, Feb. 4@Some Argen- tine newspapers are calling attention to what they regard as indications that the Japanese are preparing the way for an extensive colonization program in South America as well as seeking on this continent a larger market for their goods. The mat ter has attracted considerable at tention in diplomatic and commercial circles.
 The treaty with Paraguay, which
 the Japanese minister to Chile cross ed the continent to sign at Asunc1on, gives Japan favored nation privileges including the right of colonization Discussing this treaty, Paraguay's Finance Minister, Eusebio Ayala,
 said that one of the objects of Japan this country. He added that Para quay, which is a country the size of California with only a million inhab- otants and a. wonderful capacity for
 agricultural development, would wei come the Japanese. It is now re- ported that similar treaty is being negotiated with Uruguay. In furtherance of this supposed colonization plan in South America, Japanese capitalists, according to the
 newspaper, La Razon, have recently , acquired enormous tracts of agricul- l tural lands in northern Peru and Bolivia.
 Those in Bolivia are said to be 1 1900 miles square; those in Peru 10000 miles square. It is also said ! that Japanese capitalists have 1n- i vested recently in the exploitation of 1 tin mines in Bolivia and the projec- 1 ton of railways which they are pre- pairing to construct and operate.
 There Is no doubt," says La Ra- 1 zon, "that there already exists a 1 vast plan of Japanese colonization in Peru and Bolivia, a. plan which, con sidering the very dispersed native population and their relative incapac- | ity for certain kinds of work, is sus- ceptible to a very rapid development and to such an extent that practical 1 large nuclei of interests in South
 Anerica Pau1o, in Brazil, where
 enormous quantities of ecoffee are produced and exported to the Far
 East; the department of Tarija, in Bolivia, and the province of Loreto in Peru.
 | "It is also practically certain that
 in order to satisfy the needs of these colonization centers, an active com
 mercial interchange will be estab- lished, but the proportions of this Z to this.
 |. Japan, according to one of it's most authorized newspapers, is ; thinking out a very ample commercial . program and nobody ought to be , ] surprised if within the next ten or l twenty years, it's South American
 trade were far ahead of the majority of the other nations, as she is work 5 ing for this increasingly.
 ''These initiatives and tendencies are worthy of consideration, as they constitute a new phase, perhaps the most interesting one for us, of the l rivalry between the Empire of the Rising Sun and the Northern Re pu bIic.' The record of Japanese business 7 activity in this part of South Amer
 tca includes the arrival here of {.
 Japanese Agricultural Commercial
 mission a few months ago which is
 cooperating with an active Japanese
 Chamber of Commerce in Buenos 1 Aires.
 Japanese business men are arriving
 Fty many routes, including the Jap- , anese steamship line. One of the most recent arrivals coming by the way of the United States is Schinjire Ushikoshi, commercial expert of thf Japanese Department of Commerct
 ! and Export.
 v He is making a. six months toul g of South American countries to study e l consumption needs and also repre- . sents important Japanese fnancia n interests desiring to invest capital il = South America