UNITED STATES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8329, 10 January 1907, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

AN INCREASE OF ARTILLERY URGED. Received January 9, 11.25 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. The Hon. W. H. Taft, Secretary for War, addressing the Army Committee at Washington, urged an increase in the artillery.

JAPAN AND CALIFORNIA.

VIEWS OF THE CALIFORNIAN GOVERNOR. Received January 9, 9.7 p.m. NEW YORK, January 9. Mr Pardie, Governor of California, in a message to the State Legislature, says that President Roosevelt, with others in the Eastern parts of the country, has failed to understand the racial difference between the Japanese and Chinese on the one hand and the whites on the other. The Japanese cannot make good American citizens. He adds that until the Courts decided otherwise, California reserves the right and privilege to conduct, under the State national and treaty laws, its schools in the manner it deems best, and this without the slightest disrespect to the national Government or foreigners. PERSIA. DEATH OF THE SHAH. Received January 9, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, January 9. The Teheran correspondent of the Daily Mail announces the death of the Shah of Persia. (Muzaffer-ed-Din, Shah of Persia, was born on March 25th, 1853. On the death of his father by an assassin's hand, Muzaffer-ed-Din succeeded to the throne on May Ist, 1896.)