THERE'LL BE NO WAR WITH U.S., SAYS TOKUGAWA

"Fortunately no great war has ever been fought across the Pacific, and there is going to be none. Japan at least has fought and will fight no offensive war. Japan does not contemplate, nor has she ever contemplated, using her Navy for offensive warfare. It will never be used to attack the territory of any other country, least of all the United States," Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, 71-year-old Japanese statesman, said at a dinner in his honor at the Olympic Hotel last night.

Prince Tokugawa arrived in Seattle yesterday with his son, the Hon. Iyemasa Tokugawa, Japanese minister to Canada, and the minister's daughter. Miss Toyo Tokugawa. The prince is on a good-will tour and he is returning to Japan by way of San Francisco and Honolulu. His son will go as far as Honolulu and then return to Ottawa.

Four hundred persons filled the Spanish ballroom at the dinner arranged by the Japan Society of Seattle, the Chamber of Commerce, and K. Uchiyama, Japanese consul in Seattle.

Speaking of the economic relations between the two countries, Prince Tokugawa said: "You all know that Japan is one of your best customers, especially in cotton. In 1932, Japan bought from American growers nearly $85,000,000 worth of cotton. That represented more than 70 per cent of our total imports of raw cotton. We bought from your country nearly $5,000,000 worth of automobiles and their parts, that being more than 95 per cent in value of or total trade in these commodities."

$4,900,000 Timber Trade

"We also bought," said the prince, "nearly $4,900,000 worth of timber from America, in other words, about 60 per cent of our whole purchase of the same article last year. In return, we sold to the United States no less than $106,000,000 worth of raw silk, more than 90 per cent of the raw silk we exported in that year.

"We sold to America nearly $2,000,000 worth of tea, which was about 58 per cent of the whole. The whole sum of the American purchase of Japanese goods in 1932 was $134,000,000 and the sale of American goods to Japan amounted to $124,500,000.

Friendliness Is Tradition

"One of the reasons why there never will be war, is that of sentiment. Friendliness towards the United States is a tradition in Japan, and, if I may say so, in my own family. It is true that our two countries have at times each thought that it had reason to be annoyed with the other, but that has been the case between many other friendly nations.

"Even the best friends sometimes become irritated with each other. In Japan, even husbands and wives are not always mutually assured of good temper. I do not know how it is in your country."

Corwin S. Shank Presides

Corwin S. Shank, president of the Japan Society, was toastmaster.

The prince's son spoke briefly. The address of welcome was made by Alfred H. Lundin, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. K. Uchiyama, Japanese consul in Seattle, also spoke.

Minister Tokugawa addressed an assembly at Meany Hall, University of Washington, this forenoon. He and his father were guests at a joint luncheon given by the Institute of Pacific Relations, the University faculty and the Red Cross Society, in the Edmond Meany Hotel.

The prince and his party were scheduled to leave this afternoon for Portland, Or.