JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8859, 9 July 1907, Page 2

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Nava! Preparations.

Press Association—Copyright. New York, July 8.

America is quietly strengthening her coast defences on the Pacific and constructing a dry dock at Paget Sound. It is reported at Washington that America proposes to purchase from Mexico a naval station in Magdalena Bay, Lower California. The New York Herald’s Manila correspondent cables that owing to peremptory orders from Washington all Japanese working at the fortifications at Clongapo and Cavite have been discharged. There is great excitement in the Philippines owing to the announcement that the battleship fleet is coming to,the Pacific. The World appeals to President Roosevelt not to commit the disastrous diplomatic blunder of sending the fleet and urges him to use his influence to compel the cessation of the flagrant crime of jingo journalism which may inflame the national heart. Leading Japanese journals deprecate the nervousness of America and express the conviction that all the trouble will soon be removed.