JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 8

JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

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and N.Z. Cable Association (Received' July 3, 1.10 p.m.) NEW YORK,. July. 2. .. The United Press's correspondent ait Tokio states that Moeki Selki, the •Opposition leader, sxiggested in the \ Diet that Japan should negotiate with : the United-. *States for the exchange *of the Philippines for the South Sea Islands which Japan seized from Ger:imany. He believed that this would -feinove the causes of Japanese-Ameri- ♦ can friction. ,'Baron Mo tono replied that there • was no cause for fear regarding American-Japanese relations, which :: showed a marked improvement.