Japan’s Foothold in Mexico
By Editor
We are not receiving very much light on the Japanese foothold in Mexico. Some of the Eastern papers are telling us that the story is a pure fake; that the territory round about Magdalena Bay is utterly barren; that it is not a proper place for government port or station. And yet the Hearst papers contend that a Japanese corporation secured last August from the Mexican government a seacoast concession 700 miles long on the mainland of Western Mexico; that thirty Japanese scientists and experts are now engaged in making maps of this concession; that the survey is directed by officials of the Japanese government; and that the Japanese are now negotiating for the control of lands commanding the strategic control of Magdalena Bay. Surely this would hardly look like a mere fishing excursion.