Tokyo, Mar, 20.
Recalling that foreign vessels frequently' engaged in whaling and seal-hunting off the coasts of Japan in the early days of the Meiji Era, the Association for the Promotion of High Seas Fishing to-day issued pamphlet upholding the Japanese ight to fish salmon off Alaska in answer to the recent press campaign in the United States and Canada denouncing the "threatened invasion" of Northern Pacific waters by Japar ese and European fishing interests, The pamphlet was sent to members of the Diet, Government officials and interested quarters bboth'in Canada and in the United States.
The Association contends that the presence of Japanese fishing fleets fon the high seas off Canada and Alaska tends to bring unemployment among the fishing community those countries. is denounced Pamphlet ay "untenable, for it fuses a right guaranteed by Interns tional law with a question of dome tie policy."
The Japanese Government, on March 16, went officially on record fs intending to encourage Japanese fishing activities off Alaska.—Domel,
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