Show t SHOULD BE READY A writ writer r i in the Houston fex ex Post h has s talked with a Japanese said there would come a war with this country after a while that it would begin begin begin be be- gin as did the Russian war that the Japs want about American ten battleships in the Pacific and believe believe believe be be- lieve they could take them all in by a night attack with about 20 torpedo boats We do not put any significance upon the chatter of individual al J Japs aps but what this one one says ought to supply a a. suggestion to our naval authorities that while building bat battleships they should likewise be building smaller craft carrying but two or three guns but those guns to o be monsters boats of the utmost utmost utmost ut ut- ut- ut most speed provided with rams and torp torpedo do tubes and small cr crews ws for every department Of course those author authorities know all about submarine boats and arid what all the h powers are supposed o be doing with them and should be ready for anything when the clash comes about 1911 The result will be one that ought to make the nations sick of war for a war war between the United States and Japan would be bethe bethe bethe the final test of supremacy macy between the white and andI I t the e brown man and the fighting will be something Like what this his world has neverseen a parallel The effort on Jap Japans Japan's ns n's part will be the same as asit as asit asit it was with Russia to cripple the United States on the sea and ana then to overwhelm such land forces as we may have in the Philippines They do not want it to come until they complete some more ships and re recoup P their finances but they are teaching their children to expect by and by a war with the Gre Great Republic |