Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-04
JAPANESE NERVOUS
 OVER I'VE RELATIONS
 WITH UNITED STATES
Press Urges Government to be Firm Despite Pro-
 test
ONE PAPER SEES WORLD
 PEACE ENDANGERED
Diplomat Declares Occupation is Not Contrary to International Law But is an Act of Right
 eousness and Justice

i Tokio, Aug. Especial dispatches from the United States describing the recent conference held at the Ameri can state department between Sec retary of State Colby; Sir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador to the United States; Roland Morris, Amer ican ambassador to Japan, and Sir Billsby Francis Alstrom, the British minister to China, at which the gen. eral situation in the far east was discussed and the suggestion in some of the dispatches that Great Britain is showing signs of joining the Unit ed States in her far eastern policy, have served to increase the nervous ness here over Japanese American re- lations.
 Leading newspapers devote lengthy editorials to discussion of the situa- tion and generally demand that the Japanese people show an unbroken front. The Nichi Nichi thinks the trouble with Japan's diplomacy lies in the fact that the authorities are Excessively timid and over-consider- ate of the feeling of other coun- tries"
 They should take resolute action on their own responsibility, the paper says.
 Some Americans, adds the Nichi Nichi, interpret occupation of Sagha- len as a qualification of territorial ambitions, but if any Japanese are harboring such ambitions they are merely old fashioned imperialists. It asserts the militarists who once threatened to control the foreign pol icy, are now influenced by public opinion.
 The Hochi Shimbun declares the country should not belittle the inn portance of the American communica- ton regarding Japanese occupation. which the newspaper considers yir- tually protest.
 "Japan's vacillating diplomacy" it asserts, "has often brought contempt on Japan, particularly with regard to America"
 Urge Firm Stand.
 While deprecating rage over the American protest, the Hochi Shimbun says: N'' Let us urge no yielding. to pro- test based merely on a suspicions G imagination. We are anxious to see the problems of Japan and America settled amicably, but there is a limit to our patience. If things become un- oearaole state of affairs may occur regrettable, not only so far as Jana nese-Amerlcan relations are concern ea' put for the peace of the world we nope the authorities will abide bv the cause of justice and fear notb- ing" "o'"-
 The Jiji expresses fear that the congressional inquiry will have the erect of aggravating the anti-Japa- nese situation in California, and will influence the minds of Americans generally But the newspaper ex- poets final congressional action will De based on equality and justice.
 A member of the diplomatic advis- ory council is quoted by the Yoro- zu Choho as declaring that he can not understood the note from Amer ica as Japan has clearly stated occu- patlon of the Haghalin region would oe merely temporary, until reparation was made for the massacre of lana. nese at Nikolaievsk.
 m the name of justice," said the alplomat, Japan should determine to carry out her announced program without hesitation and irrespective of protests from any foreign power. 1apanfs step is not contrary to in- ternational law; it is an act of jus tice and righteousness.'