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A BELLICOSE ''CONGRESSMAN. CHALLENGE . .TO .JAPAN: Press Aasociation-Bv Telegraph-Copyright • NEW YORK,. .Inly 9. (Afcr. the,. Denver Convention, Cap'ain Hob.«on, Congressman for Alabaiiia; urgedthe committed! to include a. pkuik in the party' platform insisting on •0n,,-increase. iii „tbe iiavy.- America, he; said, ought to help a fleet, able to control tiie Atlantic. Whfen ready, he' would tell Japan that. Ajnerica ({id pot. care- n "(Continental damn" what- happened; and advocate an alliance with China; ; : . : CONTRACTS CAA'CCLLED. NEW YORK, July 9,-; A great outcry, .was made against Mr Taft, United States Secretary for. War, for .ordering a> million and-a half yards, of khaki in' England for, the . army : and eonstabulapy in 'the ■ Philippines.: - (President- Roowvelr; - .fearing;- the effect ol the order on the Presidential campaign prospect?, the contracs pending aii investigation... , . . ;
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 5
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130AMERICA. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 5
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