UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.
AMERICA STRENGTHENING HER COASTAL DEFENCES. EXCITEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES. Received July 8, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, July 8. America'is quietly strengthening her coast defences in the Pacific, and is constructing a dry dock at Puget 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 the Japanese working in the fortifications at Clongapo and Cavite have been discharged. There is great excitement in the Philippines owing to the announcement that the fleet is coming to the Pacific. The New York World appeals to President Boosevelt not to commit a disastrous diplomatic blunder by sending °the fleet, and urges him to use his influence to compel the cessation of the flagrant crime of Jingo journalism, whieh may inflame the national heart. The leading Japanese journals deprecate the nervousness of Amer-s ica. and express the conviction that all the soon be removed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8481, 9 July 1907, Page 5
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170UNITED STATES AND JAPAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8481, 9 July 1907, Page 5
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