JAPO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 5

JAPO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

’FRISCO AGITATION RESENTED. Press Association .—Telegraph .—Copyright. , TOKIO, March 27. The agitation in San Francisco against the Japanese ownership of land is causing much oonccrii in Japan. There is also talk of non-participation in the forthcoming Panama Exhibition, but the leading Publicists deprecate such action. LABOUR COUNCIL ON TAFT. An Ironical Resolution. SAN FRANCISCO, March 25. The Labour Council here last night passed an ironical resolution sympathising with President'Taft in his hour of distress, and hoping that he will speedily receive the wisdom and foresight that a President of the United States should possess to enable him to understand that the perpetuation of the Constitution of the United States and the welfare of th© people are of first importance, and not consideration of the pride and sensibilities of the people of Japan. CAVALRY ON WAR FOOTING. Organised by Roosevelt, NEW YORK, March 25. The Phoenix reports that Mr Roosevelt has completed arrangements for organising cavalry regiments on, a war footing in the event of trouble with Japan. The news has created pleasure in the ranks of the Rough Xtiders who followed the ex-President during the Spamsh-Ameri-can;,war. MOB WRECKS JAP’S HOUSE. Police intervention Called In. SAN FRANCISCO, March. 25. - At Greeley, Colorado, as a result of American-Japanese war talk, a mob of men and boys made an attempt to wreck the house of one Keda, a Japanese merchant. They smashed all the windows before the police interfered “BASELESS CALUMNIES.’’ Counteracting Anti-Japanese Feeling. TOKIO, March 25.;/ 1 The American Peace Society in Japan has commenced a letter .campaign with the peace organisations of, the United States, in order to stem th© tide of Anti-Japanese feeling, which threatens to bring about an open rupture. The society characterises the reports concerning th© enmity and the sinister designs of the Japanese as baseless calumnies. In the course of an address the other evening, the American Ambassador encouraged the society to continue its good work. JAPANESE GETTING COAL. 150,000 Tons for Nagasaki. PEKIN, March 25. Colliers from Nagasaki arc taking delivery of 150,000 tons of coal from the mines here, under orders. SUBMARINE MINES. For San Francisco Harbour. ,SAN FRANCISCO, March 25. Three companies of engineers begin on April 1 to, lay a, complete system of submarine mines in the harbour here. At first it was stated that the mines would be dummies, but later on it was admitted that' certain pilots had been entrusted with safety charts to allow them to thread the dangerous waters.