Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-02
lJlCHl SCOUTS IDEA
OF WAR WITH JAPAN


miral to American waters. Scarcely
had the launch bearing him to the Aso
arrived alongside the Japanese flagship
when the government tug Golden Gate,
with Collector of the Port Stratton,
Lieutenant Governor Warren Porter,
japanese Consul General Nagai and
representatives of the Japanese COM
mercial interests in San Francisco
aboard came alongside. Mr.. Stratton,
representing the president of the Unit
ed Statesc, welcomed the visitors in
the name of the chief executive of the
nation, while Lieutenant Governor Por-
ter, speaking for the California execu-
tive added a few brief words of greet
ing from tile state.
Consul Welcomes Admiral
Mr.. Nagai welcomed Admiral Ijichi
in behalf of the Japanese consulate
general and was accorded salute OF
nine guns as he went over the side at
the conclusion of his call.
Before the Japanese consul general
left the ship the lieutenant governor
of California was piped over the flag
ship while seventeen guns from the
flagship doomed out the salute due to
the governor or governors represen-
tative of an American state.
Official calls were then made on the
Japanese admiral by Captain A. Nc
Cracker of the West Virginia, Captain
V. L. Cottman of the California, Cap
tain B. A. Fiske of the Tennessee and
Captain F. A. Wilmer of the Pennsyl-
vania, all of which were returned later
in the afternoon after Admiral Ijichi
had paid his official respects to Rear
Admiral SWinburne. AS the visiting
admiral left each of the four Ameri
can cruisers he received the prescribed
salute of thirteen guns.
Official calls were also made to the
Aso by Captain Thomas S. Phelps,
commandment of the Mare island navy
yard, and by representative of Cap
tain Eberley, commandant of the
United States naval training station
on Goat island.
Meeting Consul General Nagai on
board the Aso during his call, Captain
Phelps informed the Japanese official
that he will be unable to be present
at the latter's reception to the visit
ors at the Hotel St.. Francis Monday
night, owing to the fact he had just
received the sad news of the expected
death of his sister in Washington,
which will take him post haste to the
national capital
Admiral Ijichi Makes Statement
After he had received his official
callers Admiral Ijichi, sitting in his
cabin under the quarter deck of the
Also, made a statement to the Asso-
ciated Press.
II do not consider myself stranger
either to the United States or to San
Francisco" he said, for 1 was here
on a similar training cruise twenty
nine years ago, when 1 was a cadet
at the Japanese naval college instead
of the admiral of a squadron. 1 have
a very pleasant recollection of that
early visit to the Golden Gate, al
though there is now little here which
was there then to remind one of the
to San Francisco except the
natural beauties of the harbor and
some of the early Notifications. I
wish, through the press of the coun-
try, to convey to the American people
my sincere thanks for the hearty re-
ception that has been extended to my
Officers, my midshipmen my enlisted
men and myself ever since my squad
ron touched the shores of the United
States"
Admiral Ijichi secuted the idea of
possible hostilities between the United
States and Japan as something quite
out of the question.
1.-THE United States and JAPAN" said
he, "are anchored on as firm basis
OF friendship today as they have ever
been in the past, and I cannot foresee
any probability of an interruption or
breach of these friendly relations
These two great nations of the Pacific
are not going to war with each other
for any cause that we today can pre-
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