The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-01-31
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Fleet Off For the Strait.

After numerous expressions of good
will and in the presence of throng
Of spectators ON shore and on pleasure
craft estimated to be near a half mil
lion the American battleship fleet in
command of Admiral Evans sailed out
from the harbor of Rio de Janeiro Jan.
% and started on its cruise for the
strait of Magellan. The torpedo boat
fotilla had sailed the evening before
for Buenos Aires. President Penna
went on his yacht to call upon the
American commander before the de-
parture. and three divisions of the
Brazilian navy escorted the fleet out
to sea. On the preceding day the Off
| GERS of the feet had given a reception
on the Minnesota to the Brazilian Off
GERS. The next stopping place Of the
fleet Will be Punta Arenas, at the en-
trance to the strait, where it will be
met by the Chilean war vessel Chaca-
buco. which will accompany the feet
beyond the Chilean boundary line on
| its way to Callao, Peru, no other stop
being made In Chilean territory.
Japan vii! Satisfy America.
Viscount Hayashi. Japanese minister
of foreign affairs, in an interview at
Tokyo repelled the various lingo state
| ments appearing in certain American
and Japanese papers by announcing
| that the government OF Japan would
| forbid emigration to Hawaii and Mex
| leo il necessary to satisfy the Amer
| lean government of its determination
| to control the character of Japanese
| going to America, In accordance with
agreements to be entered upon. He
said the negotiations had not yet been
concluded but that the rumors of q
crisis between the two countries. on
any serious question were fabrications.
The Canadian authorities have re-
| ceived similar assurances from Tokyo.
Suffrage Disturbs Reichstae.
The question of universal suffrage in
| Prussia was projected into the discus
slons of the reichstag by a skillful in
terpellation made by Socialist leaders,
| asking on what ground the chancellor
considered manhood suffrage as al
| ready granted for the parliament cleo
tons to be harmful to the interests OF
one of the federal states. Chancellor
| Won Bulow showed great anger in his
| reply, which was virtsally threat
that the men responsible for the re-
cent Socialist demonstrations in the
streets of Berlin would be severely
dealt with by the government. He
was interrupted. however, by shouts
Of derision from the Socialist benches,
and Herr Fischer said the Socialists
were prepared to accept all RESPONSE
| bility for the demonstrations. When
h Conservative charged that the So
tialist leaders took pains to absent
themselves from the demonstrations
SITTER advising tile mobs to act great
| tumult Of disapproval broke out, dur
Ing which Herr Bebel called the speak
er miserable rascal"
Socialism Aim of Laborites.
The conference Of the British Labor
party at Hull voted down the resolu-
ton binding the party to any particular
Socialist programme, but passed ar
other declaring socialism to be the
definite and ultimate aim of the Labor
party.
Unionists Defeat Government.
| The most decisive defeat Mt the polls
which the Liberal ministry of England
has experienced since the general cleo
tons In 1906 occurred In Mid-Devon-
shire Jan. 10, when the Unionist can