Jan. 24, was not very long after the passage of the Bill by the United States Congress giving independence to the Philippine Islands, that a certain section of the Filipinos began to express some double as to the wisdom of the agitation which had brought about such a step. Those doubts have been largely increased on both sides of the Pacie by the recent development of Japanese policy in China, and the general deductions to be drawn from the statements of Japanese statesmen. The cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" is all embracing, and there is by-no means an inconsiderable body of opinion, not only in the Philippines, but also in the United States, which realizes that if Japanese ambitions are to be fulfilled to the extent it is apparently planned, the United States will sooner or later have to decide either to withdraw from the western Pacific entirely, or prepare to defend ils rights in this part of the world. For that reason the
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