CLOUDS DISSOLVING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 5

CLOUDS DISSOLVING.

JAPAN AND AMERICA. MOVEMENTS OP THE FLEET. ORDINARY AUTUMN MANOEUVRES. By Telegraph.— Pies* Association. — Copyiigiit. (Received July 20, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, 19th July. The New York World attributes to President Roosevelt the statement that he had given no older to the Navy Board to send tho battleship fleet to the Pacific, and that he was unawarethe board had issued any euch order. Tho fleet will proceed on a cruise early in tho fall for the 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 legard to tho 1 Japanese question, which President Roosevelt does not consider seri.ous. Tho World expresses the belief that President Roosevelt will not consent to send the fleet to the Western Coast, and declares sthat the jingo demonstration is finished. The paper attributes it to the ridiculous "fourth of July bunkum" talked by Mr. Metcalf, secretary of the Navy. Tho newspaper adds— "There are some signs that California is beginning to regret the campaign, and is trying to appease ill-feling." PACIFIC CORRESPONDENCE. MINISTER AND NEWSPAPER. NEW YORK, 19th July. The Netf- York Herald sent the follow. ing cable message yesterday to Viscount Hayashi, the Japaneso Minister of Foreign Affairs: — "Only a dozen newspapers out of two thousand two hundred sympathise with the jingo demand for the transfer of tho licet to tho Pacific. Therefore, it is untrue that the demonstration is backed by the entire. American people." Viscount Hayashi roplied in tho following terms : — "All Japan has unshaken confidence in tho policy of justice- and peace displayed by the American Government. Wo are convinced of the pacific character of the,, situation, and that the sensational reports appearing in a small section .of > the presa do not reflect the mind of the nation." SAN FRANCISCO COMING ROUND. JAPANESE LABOUR WANTED. NEW YORK, 19th July. The directors of the San Francisco Merchants' Enchange announce that they are not in favour of any immigration law discriminating against Japanese. ■ It is reported thai/ the fruitgrowers in Fresno County have made the discovery that Japanese are absolutely r.cces^aiy, there being no white labour available to pick the fruit.