AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 162, 16 July 1907, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

No Law Against Spies. Demagogue Stirs Up Strife. Press Association—Copyright Beceived July 15, 10.42 p.m. New Yoee, July 15. The discovery that no American law • makes espionage a penal offence has • created surprise. Another Japanese employed as a servant at Fort Rosecrans was found in possession of drawings and photographs • of the defences and copies of Government papers. Ten thousand people afc a meeting at San Diego, California, -were intensely excited by an orator alleging that Japanese spies are mapping the entire coast and taking soundings. Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador in the United States, in an interview, declared that it was a hideously wicked act to try to involve the two powers in war and declared that relations between them were as friendly now as ever. Beferring to the question of the mastery of the Pacific, be declared that ' the Pacific belonged to the world. He believed the race question would adjust itself.