"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cabled News From Abroad. (vSydnex Sun.) JAPAN AND AMERICA. LONDON. Al.iy 17. According to the Daily Mail. California's attitude, has provoked the Japanese nation to a high pitch of racial fanaticism. Probably Japan will retaliate with legislation affecting Americans in Japan. XE-W YORK. May 17. The Governor of Arizona has signed cm Anti-Alien Hill on similar lines to California's. All wealthy Mexicans are barred out as well .as Asiatics. STKAMKi: TUIX.S TURTLE. XKW YORK. May 9. News of the drowning of 150 drinkcraned mutineers in the raging torrent of a Mexican river has been received at San Diego. California. The \ ietims were a band of I'Vdoriil soldiers, who. led by four officers, bad formed a plot to plunder a number of towns. They had just raided one place, where they looted the banks and stores, and wvk' making their escape on a steamer when the cm ft turned turtle, and everyone on hoard was drowned.

Apart from the fart that, the whole crowd was nearly. <n.;td with drink, there, wax siicli n strong curront running in the river at the time that it was impossible for any lives to bo snvod. EMPIRE P.VfUrOTISM. Sir William Kamsay, delivering the Romania lecture at Oxford upon Imperial pence, said that the more inteiisp. was the. .spirit of nationalism in its highest ami best form the more powerful was the appreciation of u wider and Imperial patriotism. Tn fostering that patriotism the worst possible course would he to discourage and try to extirpate national idiosyncrasies, and aim at a dead level of universal similarity to one general type. The truest Scotsman or the. most typical Englishman was the hest and most patriotic citizen of the Empire. The Times, commenting on the lecture in a leader, says: ''The Empire lias made for liberty because it has never sought to obliterate., but. wliere possible, to develop the individual systems of the racial life of the people over which it has established its sway. Nothing could so plunge the. world into strife as the collapse of the 'British power amongst its manifold subjects."