JAPAN AND AMERICA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81908, 20 December 1906, Page 2

JAPAN AND AMERICA

Tnw SCHOOLS DIFFICULTY. VISIT OF JAPANESE SQUADRON ABANDONED. OWING TO PUBLIC FEELING AT 'FRISCO. ,; Received 10th, 9.50 p.m. '■Tokio, December 19. the Japanese squadron, which is visiting Honolulu in February, docs not proceed to San Francisco owing to the overwrought condition of public feeling there in connection with the schools dispute. r ! "'\td REPORT TO CONGRESS. m '^

IN SUPPORT OF JAPANESE m

Received 10th, 9.50 p.m. ; Washington, December 19. ' Mr Metcalfe, Minister for Commerce,, in the course of reports sub-' nutted to -Congress, shows that there were only 93 Japanese children attending the schools in San Francisco. They are clean, bright, and well-be-haved, and, since they are scattered over the city, it is impossible for them to attend single schools. Mr Met* calfe claims that the Japanese are entitled to the fullest protection and. the highest consideration.

ROOSEVELT'S DETERMINATION. *'

FORCE TO PROTECT JAPANESE,

SPEECH BY JAPANESE AMBAS, ! SADOR, '

Received 19th, 10.5 p.m. '' " " Washington, December 19. ' In transmitting Mr Metcalfe's report, President Roosevelt reiterated the use of all the forces at his dis-, posal to protect the Japanese. M. Aoki, the Japanese Ambassador, at a banquet at Washington, referred to the living monument of cordial friendship which cements tho United States and Japan, and ridiculed the, idea of a struggle between the two nations for the control of the Pacific.