AMERICA AND JAPAN.
AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST
WAR.
United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, October 7. Tho Times’ Now York correspondent declares that a majority of soberminded Americans do not believe in tho possibility of war with Japau, X’rosidont Itoosovelt certainly does ontortain such an intention. Ho honestly believes tho cruise of the fleet in tho Pacific will do the fleet good, and possibly accelorato furtlior naval appropriations. AMERICA’S NAVAL PROGRAMME NEW YORK, October 7. Tho Secretary for the Navy declares that tho battleships Indiana, lowa', and Massachusetts will remain in the Atlantic. Soven other battleships are being constructed. These will bo completed within eighteen months. THE FLEET FOR THE PACIFIC. NEW YORK, October 7. Tho cruisers Tennessee and Washington start for . tho Pacific on the 12th. Sixteen battleships and six destroyers leave in the middle of December, calling at Trinidad, Rio Janeiro, Punta Arenas, Callao, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2206, 9 October 1907, Page 2
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