San Francisco, Nov. 10.
Japan has already set back American trade in China to the extent of 1U.S$200,000,000 Mr. Julean Arnold, American Commercial Attache in Shanghai, told Pacific Coast audiences recently.
"Unless Americans—and patticularthose on the western slope—awaken fo what is transpiring in the Orient, this nation will lose its place os a, Pacific power and its lucrative trade with China" he said.
"Too many people in the Pacific area believe they are a part of the world which begins with Burope and ends fon the Pacific Coast. Whether we wish, it or not, our geographical propinguily connects us with the Far East, which in reality has become for us the Far West."
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