JAPANESE EDITORS WARNED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11371, 2 September 1908, Page 5

JAPANESE EDITORS WARNED.

According to ; the Tokio correspondent of .Le Temps, the neAv. Japanese Pre-, mier, Count Katsura, has issued timely warning to the neAvspaper editors of Nippon m vieAv of the approaching visit of the American fleet. Count Katsura referred to the visit as "an embarrassing potentiality, which imust be contemplated m a spirit of conciliation as Avell as of patriotism." There must be no allusions to. San Francisco labor unions while the ships are off the Mikado's islands; no references to the sudden recall of the late Japanese Ambassador m Washington; no mention of anything but "the cordial relations Avluch have so long existed between - the American Republic and that nation she has taught so much." Indeed, it is said that the Japanese Premier has him. self been dipping his quill into the inkpot (of his stick into the stainpot, or Avhatever be the Japanese equivalent) and has produced a leading article Avhich is to' be taken by the editors as their model as soon as the smoke' from Admiral Sperry's warships pierces the horizonr We are told that neAvspapers Avhich fail- to. reflect the. sentiments suggested by the Premier may not be suppressed nor even fined— but there are Avays.