AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14498, 9 October 1907, Page 7

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

THE ANTI-WAR FEELING. THE PACIFIC FLEET'S CRUISE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 7. Tlio New York correspondent of the “Times” declares fiat tiro majority of sobermiuded' Americans do not believe in the possibility of Avar with Japan. President Roosevelt certainly does not entertain any such intention. He honestly believes that the cruise of the fleet in the Pacific avIII do the fleet good, and possibly accelerate further naval appropriations. AMERICA’S NAVAL ACTIVITY. NEW YORK, October 7. The Secretary of the Navy declares that the battleships Indiana, lowa and Massachusetts will remain in the Atlantic. Seven other battleships are being constructed there, and two of these will be completed in eighteen months. THE FLEET FOR THE PACIFIC. NEW YORK, October 7.

The cruisers Tennessee and Washington will sail for the Pacific on October 12, and sixteen battleships and six destroyers in the middle of December, calling at Trinidad, Rio de Janeiro, Punta Arenas, Callao, Magdalena Bay and San Francisco.