Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-19
Washington Standard
OIXNPIa. WASH.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 10. 1907.
Falsehood vs.. Logic Of Events

II does seem strange that some
p..uplr aqrcdjt III" professions OF
i,r-.. given out in official hullrtinS,
when 50 many incidents prove con-
rhI>iNrlV that the conditions between
This country and Japan are strung to
III" highest tension. The Nippon
Lord High t.X,'utiUnrr expresses the
pr"tuund,.>t friendship and ollr own
Custodian of the Big Club acknowl-
edges responsive heart beats. while
the gun factories and powder mills
are running over time in producing
the implements OF warfare for both
governments.
Now Il dispatch comes from Mex
leo. dated last Saturday. which states
that nine thousand Japanese SOL
dcrS are now in Northwestern Mex
loo. They are stationed at points in
III" States of Sonora. Sinoloa and
Chihuahua. Each group is command
ed by skilled commanders. who saw
service in the RuSso-JapancSe war.
Thirty thousand japanese. the vast
majority of whom are veterans OF the
Russian campaigns, are in the south
western section of the United States
and Lower California. Three Jap
anrsc Generals who held high rank
in the Russo-Japanese War have been
in Mexico for three months. They
dress like Mexican rancheros and are
ostensibly buying land.
The Trans Oceanic Immigration
Company, whose Vice President is I.
Hinata. Il member of the Japanese
Parliament. is subsidized by the Jap
ancse Government to bring Japanese
soldiers to Mexico. They have been
coming into Mexico at the rate of 800
per month, landing at Salina Cruz,
ManzanillO and other Pacific ports.
In case of war, the plan is for the
Japanese fleet to sail up the Gulf of
California, capture the port of Quay
mas and use the State of Sonora as q
base of operations in a campaign
against the United States. This
plan will practically duplicate the
operations against Russia, when ia
pan seized COrea at the outbreak of
the Russo-Japanese war.
Japan, in her war against the
United States, will despoil Mexican
territory, which has no navy, just as
she did that of Corea in the war with
Russia.
Foreign diplomats here, and espe-
cially those of Europe. are watching
the developments with interest and
establishment because of the made
quate American secret service off.
Gals, who seem not to be thoroughly
informed of Japan's operations in
Mexico"
Then these significant words are
added to the dispatch, These details
are true in every particular. ~
The PHILIPPINES ON FAIRLY Coon
DEFENSIVE FOorINa. "A friend OF
Admiral Dewey, Alexander Stern
berg, known to scores of individuals
of all ranks in the Philippines, is in
Seattle. He has been a business
man in Manila for nine years, has
evidently been a close observer, and
his views are therefore entitled to am
pie consideration. He says that the
coast cities of the archipelago have
not been neglected and that the
work of fertilization has been prose
cuted with great vigor, and he thinks
the Japs cannot wrest the islands
from the United States. They might
get into Manila, but the extraordi-
nary work that has been done at Ca
vite and other points make them
practically impregnable. He says
that the Japs are becoming offensive
and insolent, and he thinks with
many others that it is public duty
for some nation to shake the conceit
out of them.
A HORSE ON THEM.-An astOund
ing incident of one of those cyclones
which occasionally sweep over thu
Middle-West States, is reported from