NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE have dealt elsewhere with the rumours prevalent this week of serious friction between Japan and the United States, and need only say here that though we hold that there is cause for grave anxiety for the future in regard to what we may term the problem of the Pacific, there is no reason to suppose that either of the Powers concerned is anxious to do anything but maintain the peace, or that their present relations are anything but friendly. This can hardly be otherwise when it is notorious that the Washington Government do not sympathise with the unjust and anarchic action taken towards Japanese residents in San Francisco, and are doing all they can within the Constitution to bring not merely the San Francisco mob, but the State authorities, to a better state of mind. Further, we do not doubt that public opinion in America supports the national Gove rnment, and that throughout the country the best and most influential people in all classes are indignant at what has taken place in San Francisco.
