AMEBICA AND JAPAN.
COAST DEFENCES BEING STRENGTHENED.
EXCITEMENT IX THE PHILIPPINES.
United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July Bth, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 8. America i.s quietly utrengtliening her roast defences on the Pacific, and con etructing a dry dock nt Puget Sound. It is reported in Washington that America proposcj to purchase from .Mexico the naval .station at Magdalcna Bay, Lower California. The 'Sew York Herald's'" Manila correspondent cables that owing to peremptory orders from Washington, all Japaneso working in the fortifications at Clongapo and Cavit© havo been discharged. Thero is great excitement iv tho Philippines owing to the announcement that a battleship fleet is coming to the Pacific.
Tho " New York World " appeals to President Roosevelt not to commit a disastrous diplomatic blunder by sending the fleet. It urges him to u-v his influence to compel the cessation of tho flagrant crimo of jingo jour nalism, which may inflame the national heart. Tho leading Japanese journals de-prcv cato nervousness in America, and ox press the conviction that all trouble will soon bo removed.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12851, 9 July 1907, Page 7
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