AMERICA AND-JAPAN

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8860, 10 July 1907, Page 2

AMERICA AND-JAPAN

Good Feeling in Japan,

Press Association. —Copyright. | Tokio, July 9.

The Japanese Press calmly admit that it is natural for America to redistribute her navy as a secp-iel to the adoption of an Imperial policy. Field-Marshal Okuma remarked that as the arrival of the fleet will synchronise with the chrysanthemum season it will enable Japan to display hoi- hospitality. Nevertheless prices on tho Tokio stock exchange fell slightly.

Startling the World,

Nmv York, July 8,

Admiral Brownson, on behalf of President Roosevelt, declares that when tho United States was at perfect peace it was a good opportunity to give the world a startling demonstration of what the American navy was capable of doing. Admiral Dewey states the transfer of the fleet is desirable because it is ‘--necessary for the United States to hold the balance of power in the Pacific. ,