Favors Using Mexico.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 27, 1913:
Tokio Papers Urge It Would Further Japan's Cause Here.
    TOKIO, July 26.— Leading newspapers to-day accuse the Japanese cabinet of lack of adroitness in the negotiations connected with the California alien land-ownership legislation. They urge that advantage should be taken of Mexico's friendliness to further Japan's cause. At the same time they question the sincerity of the United States.
    H. Hashimoto, Vice Minister of Commerce, made this statement to-day concerning Japanese participation in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
    "The authorities understand that it is reasonable for Japanese merchants to refuse to exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition owing to their natural resentment against the Alien Land Ownership Bill, but such participation would ease the situation, and the Japanese Government hopes that the nation will send as many exhibits as possible."