JUNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13481, 22 July 1907, Page 5

JUNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

A JAPANESE STATESMAN'S

VIEWS.

THE SPY INCIDENT RIDICULED.

United Press Association. — By Eleptric Telegraph. — Copyright. OTTAWA, July 20. Unron Yamaoto, a • member of the Supreme Council of War in Japan, has arrived in Montreal from the United States: In an interview, he said it was un-

necessary to visit San Francisco, since ho had found President- Roosevelt and Admiral Evans agreed with him that peace and friendship should exist betwoen Japan and the United States. Ho considered the anti-Japanese agitation in San, Francisco a trifling affair, and that it did not represent the national feeling in the slightest degree. He ridiculed the "spy" incident, declaring that Japan did not resort to such tactics.