The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-02-13
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THE ARGENTINE

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BUENOS AIRES, Jan, i2.-(By
Mall-Somc Argentine newspapers
are calling attention TO what they
regard MS indications, that the Japan
ese are preparing the way for an
extensive colonization program In
South America as we'll rs seeking on
this continent u larger market for
their goods. The matter has attract
ed considerable attention in diplo-
matte and commercial circles,
The treaty with Paraguay. which
the Japanese minister to Chile ross
ed the continent to sign at Asuncion,
gives Japan favored nation privi-
leges including the right of colonial
ton. Discussing this treaty, Para
guay's finance minister, Eusebio
Ayala, said that one of the objects
of Japan was to provide for colonial
ton in his country. He added that
Paraguay, which is n country the
size of California, with only u mil
lion inhabitants. and a wonderful
capacity for agricultural develop
ment, would welcome the Japanese.
1t is now reported that u similar
treaty is being negotiated with Uru-
quay. q
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-
tural lands in northern Peru and
Bolivia.
Those in Bolivia are said to be
1,S00 miles square; those In Peru
20, 900 miles square. 1t is also said
that Japanese capitalists have in
vested recently in the exploitation of
tin mines in Bolivia and the projec-
ton of railways which they are pre-
pairing to construct and operate.
There is no doubt" says La
Razon, that there already exists q
vast plan of japanese colonization In
Peru and Bolivia, a plan which IN
sidering the very dispersed native
population and their relative incapa-
city for certain kinds of work, is
susceptible to very rapid develop
ment, and to such an extent that
practically very soon Japan will
in South America: Sac Paulo, In
Brazil, where enormous quantities of
coffee are produced and exported to
the far east; the department of Ia
RIA, in Bolivia, and the province of
Loreto, in Peru.
ct is also practically certain that
in order to satisfy the needs of these
colonization cehters an active COM
mercial interchange will be estab-
lished, but the proportions of this
economic expansion are not limited
to this.
Japan, according to one Of its
most authorized newspapers, is
thinking out a very ample CONNER
cial program and nobody ought to be
surprised IL within the next ten or
twenty years its South American
trade were far ahead of the majority
of the other nations, as she Is work
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
rivalry between the empire of the
Rising Sun and the northern repub-
lie"
activity in this part of South America
includes the arrival here of a
Japanese agricultural commercial
mission a few months ago, which is
cooperating with an active Japanese
chamber of m in Buenos
Aires.
japanese business men are arriv-
ing by many routes, including the
Japanese steamship line. One of the
most recent arrivals coming by the
way of the United States is Schinjire
Ushikoshi, commercial expert of the
Japanese department of commerce
and export.
He is making a six months tour
of South American countries to study
consumption needs and also repre-
sents important Japanese financial
interests desiring to invest capital in