A JAPAN-AMERICAN WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9166, 14 August 1908, Page 3

A JAPAN-AMERICAN WAR.

PROPHETIC PICTURE BY A GERMAN WRITER, A brochure published in Leipzig, under the title "Banzai," by an author who conceals his identity, paints a curious picture of a coming Japanese-American war. The American fleet is on its homeward voyage when the cables are cut to Manila. This is explained by a steamer which arrives with a Hongkong newspaper describing how a typhoon has interrupted telegraphic communication. Not till two days later do the American garrison discover that war has broken out, and simultaneously the American monitor Monadnock is blown up by a Japanese tramp. The Philippines are blockaded and San Francisco is seized by an army of 100,000 Japanese, who "issue Wfcmysteriously from various shops." A HBearful financial panic in the United BwStates follows, and yellow men are IB' generally massacred when they show f themselves. The American Fleet, while manoeuvring, is attacked by a Japanese force, which sinks every ship, Admiral Sperry going down list with his flagship. Finally, the Americans assemble a great army and expol the Japanese. England is represented as treacherously aiding Japan, while the final vi^jc/of the United States is declared to be due to German officers.