UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 22 February 1908, Page 5

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

EXTRAODINARY EXODUS OF JAPANESE REPORTED.

•CALIFORNIANS PUZZLED.

Received February 21, 9 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20. Cali/ornians are puzzled by the extraordinary exodus homewards of able-bodied Japanese. Prominent Japanese have explained that they have been recalled by the Mikado.

"OPEN-DOOR" IN MANCHURIA

DISCUSSION IN AMERICAN

PRESS

Received February 21„ 9 a.m

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20. The newspapers are urgently discussing the question of the "opendoor" in Manchuria.

"SENSATIONAL PRESS NON-

SENSE."

Received February 21, 9.29 p.m

NEW YORK, February 21

/The Pilgrim Club banquetted Hon. fitelaw Reid, American Ambassain England, at New York, on the eve of his returning to London. Mr Reid ridiculed the sensational press nonsense about Britain's obligations to sustain Japan in a war against the United States. Firstly, there was not a ghost of a possibility of any war with Japan; secondly, the Anglo-Japanese treaty simply provided in the event'of any aggression on Japan's recognised territorial rights in the East, Britain would susatain her. Only a lunatic could believe that th<* Uni ed States would cross the Pacific and try and rob one of her oldest and truest friends. Mr Reid refered to,the stately procession of warshios peacefully hearing the American flag around the western hemisphere, recalling to America its commanding position, not merely in *he Atlantic, but in the Pacific Ocean Hvhich is to carry the commerce of the twentieth century.