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| PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S RECOMMENDATION, NEW YORK, January 22. President Rooseveit has forwarded to Congress thoGeneral Staff's recommendation for the fortification of San Pedro Harbour, in California, on the i ground that it would be impossible otherwise to prevent an Oriental Power, within a month of hostilities developing, from landing a hundred thousand men at Los Angeles, and three hundred thousand within two months. The War Department declares that the projected fortifications have no connection with recent Japanese troubles. JAPANESE LEAVING THE STATES. IS WAR THREATENING? LONDON, January 22. The New York correspondent of "The Times" declares that in San Francisco there is much wanton mis-chief-making. dictated solely for local party purposes. Considerably more Japanese are leaving the United States than are arriving. Mr W. R. Heast's newspapers demand that the American fleet should return to the Pacific, and be kept there, since complications are developing which threaten war.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3100, 25 January 1909, Page 5
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149PROJECTED FORTIFICATIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3100, 25 January 1909, Page 5
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