AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8865, 16 July 1907, Page 2

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

No Law Against Spies, ■ i Demagogue Stirs Up Strife.

Press Association—Copyright j New York, July 13. Tlio discovery -that no American. law j makes espionage a. penal offence has : created surprise. Another Japanese employed as a scr- ■ vant at -Fort Rosecrans was found; in j possession of drawings and photographs : of the defences and copies of Government : papers. _ . ; Ten thousand people at a meeting at j San Diego, California, were intensely • excited by an orator alleging that Japan- j ese spies are mapping the entire coast j and biking soundings, S Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador I in the United States, in an interview, j declared that it was a hideously wicked j act to try to involve the two powers in ■ war and declared that relations between ! thorn wore as friendly now as over. ■ 'Referring to the question ■ of the j mastery of the Pacific, ho declared that • the Pacific belonged to the world. ; He believed the race question would * adjust itself. _ |