THE JAPANESE DESIRE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17535, 31 March 1919, Page 5

THE JAPANESE DESIRE.

"LARGELY SENTIMENTAL." *

COUNT ISHII EXPLAINS

HIMSELF.

(Received March 31, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 29.

Mr. David Lawrence, the Evening Post's Washington correspondent, interviewed Count Ishii, who said: I am sorry some American Senators misunderstood my New York speech. I had no particular instructions from icy Government to make this speech but the subject is very close to the hearts of the Japanese people. We must go to the source of all friction between the peoples in order to establish a Leagui of Nations whicn will prevent war. What Japan* seeks is largely sentimental. I saw nothing in my speech which would give the basis for believing that Japan intended to have the United States open her gates to unrestricted Japanese immigration. The quarrel between American and Japanese soldiers at Tientsin was merely a local brawl, likely to occ,ur wherever large bodies of soldiers congregate. The S Korean uprising is merely the work f young Korean students. The Japanese administration in Korea has been excellent.