AMERICA AND JAPAN.
OMINOUS PREPARATIONS. JAPANESE OPINION. United Press Association—Copyright Received July 8, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, July 8. America is quietly strengthening her coast defences on the Pacific, and constructing a dry dock in Puget Sound. It is reported at Washingion that America lias proposed to purchase from Mexico a naval station at Magdalena Bay, Lower California. The New York Herald’s Manilla correspondent cables that owing to peremptory orders from Washington all Japanese working on the fortifications at Clongapo and Cavite have been discharged. There is great excitement in tlio Philippines owing to the announcement that a battleship fleet is coming to tlie Pacific. The New York World appeals to President Roosevelt not to commit a disastrous diplomatic blunder by sending the fleet, and urges him to use his influence to compel the cessation of the flagrant crime of Jingo Journalism, which mar influence tlie national heart.
The leading Japanese journals deprecate the nervousness iu America, and express the conviction that all trouble will soon he removed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2127, 9 July 1907, Page 2
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