Leading Japanese Advocate Calmness.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 27, 1913:
Settlement of Strained Situation with America Needs Patience, Peace Diners Told.
RACE ANTAGONISM BLAMED
Exists in Canada, Australia, and Elsewhere, as Well as In California, Baron Shimada Asserts.
    TOKIO, May 26.— Prominent Japanese at a dinner to-night urged calm and patient efforts for a friendly solution of the difficulty between Japan and the United States, especially abstention from inflammatory and misleading utterances. It was admitted that the United States was confronted with a difficult problem.
    The speakers included Baron Shibusawa, President of the American-Japanese Association; Buei Nakano, Presi-

merce; Baron Shimada, and Jokichi Ta-kamine.
    Baron Shimada insisted that racial prejudice was one of the causes of the present trouble, and that there was agitation against the Japanese in Canada, Australia and other places, as well as in California. Should the Japanese fail to struggle against the attitude of the white race, he said, it would adversely affect the future of all Asiatics. He added that a strong reason why the Japanese were disliked was found in the fact that they were regarded as an aggressive nation, this opinion arising from reckless and irresponsible utterances by some of the Japanese.
    At the organization of the Japanese Peace Society at Yokohama, to-day, Count Okuma, former Foreign Minister, and Baron Sakatani, Mayor of Tokio, dwelt on the friendliness of the bulk of the American people and the efficacy of international peace societies as a means of making an amicable settlement.
    Emperor Yoshihito is making most satisfactory progress, according to the attending physicians. He is now believed to be out of danger.