JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8492, 22 July 1907, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

i££W YORK, July 19, New Yjsrk World attributes Pjr6sixJ®iit Roosevelt the statement I that he had giv<en no order to the Navy Board to send the battleship fleet to the Pacific, and that he was unaware the board Jiad issued any euch order. The fleet will proceed on a cruise early in the fell for m purpose.of engaging in manoeuvres. It may go to the Pacific, but its destination is not yet determined, ' The plans have absolutely no significance in regard to the Japanese question, which President Roosevelt does not consider serious. ' ' The World expresses the belief that President Roosevelt will not consent to send the fleet-to the Western Coast, and declares that the jingo demonstration is finished. The paper attributes it to the ridiculous/'fourth of July bunkum" talked by Mr Met- j calf, secretary of the Navy, The newspaper adds—"There are some signs that California" is beginning to regret the is trying to appeals ill-feeling." Received July OTTTAWA, July 20." Baron Yamaoto, of Japan, has arrived at Montreal from* the Um'teu States. Interviewed, he said that it was unnecessary to visit San Francisco since he found that President Roosevelt and Admiral . Evans had agreed with him that peace and friendship should exist between Japan and the United States. He considered that the anti-Japanese agitation at San Francisco was a tiifling affair, and did not represent the national feeling in the slightest degree. He ridiculed the spy incident declaring|that Japan did no': resort to such tactics.