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Show JAPAN EXCITED OVER THE REVIVAL OF PREDICTIONS OF A BIG WAR Leslie ill. Shaw's Speech, Reproduced in Japanese Papers, Causes a Most Gloomy Impression in Japan on the Eve of the Arrival of Americans at Yokohama I above water. Sixty cans of milk were washed down stream to a dam, where, later, all but one were recovered. In the meantime Provinse yelled lustily for help and was rescued with the aid of a ropo. Tokio, Feb. 24. Special ilispntehes to tiie newspapers from the United Stales report a recurrence of the antl-.lapauese antl-.lapauese movement at San Francisco. Today nil of thy local papers featured the speech of Leslie M. Shaw, former tecrclaiy of tho treasury. In which he Is reported as having said that war between the Unlt6d States and Japan was inevitable. The speech has caused a most gloomy Impression among Japanese and foreigners alike. The specials quote Major General Franklin Bell as having said that war between the twn countries was likely to break out at any moment. The press and the public are unable to understand the reason for these violent utterances. Tho Asalhl Sklmbun and the JIJI Shlapo print long specials from San Francisco, quoting Mr. Shaw's speech at Morrlstown, N. J., on last Tuesday. Commenting on this fpeech, tho papers pa-pers remark the coincidence In the receipt of theso dispatches at a tlmo when preparations are being made at Yokohama and in this city for a reception recep-tion to the 700 Americans aboard the steamer Cleveland, which is duo at Yokohama tomorrow morning. Editorially, the papers repudiate the suggestion that Japan is seeking control con-trol of the Pacific and declare that American competition will be welcomed. wel-comed. Unions Are Responsible. San Francisco, Feb. 24. While there haB been nothing In the nature of a renewed anti-Japanese movement In this city, or state, the special dispatches dis-patches from San Francisco, mentioned men-tioned os having been received In Tokio, To-kio, are believed to have been Inspired by tho action of the labor council last Friday In adopting a resolution advising advis-ing all unions, "not to unionize or permit per-mit their members to work in houes where Oriental labor Is employed." The adoption of the resolution followed fol-lowed a discussion of the proposed movement ncalnst saloons where Chi neso rnd Japanese help Is employed, and the action was designed to extend ex-tend tho scopo of the movement to embrace all houses employing Orient als. It received considerable publicity public-ity at tho time as an anti-Asiatic movement, move-ment, but th Japanese were not specifically spe-cifically mentioned. In addition to this the Anti-Asiatic League is endeavoring to secure as-hiirances as-hiirances that Asiatics will not be employed em-ployed by the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion directors. |