Review of reviews and world's work . res, and, in-political, business, and social conditions. To- deed, have dropped the campaign against day the Japanese preponderanceIs considerably greater. Theyhave two daily newspapers andcontrol more than one kind ofbusiness in the islands. APoliticalStrilie ? Early in May some8000 Japanese labor-ers on the sugarplantations of the island ofHawaii went out on strike, de-manding a 40 per cent, increasein wages. A search made by theauthorities in the offices of theJapanese newspaper, the //;/, andof the headquarters of the High-er Wage Association, an organi
Review of reviews and world's work . res, and, in-political, business, and social conditions. To- deed, have dropped the campaign against day the Japanese preponderanceIs considerably greater. Theyhave two daily newspapers andcontrol more than one kind ofbusiness in the islands. APoliticalStrilie ? Early in May some8000 Japanese labor-ers on the sugarplantations of the island ofHawaii went out on strike, de-manding a 40 per cent, increasein wages. A search made by theauthorities in the offices of theJapanese newspaper, the //;/, andof the headquarters of the High-er Wage Association, an organi-zation of Japanese for their owneconomic improvement, broughtto light letters and documentswhich were regarded as evidencethat these Japanese strikers wereconspiring to overthrow theAmerican administration and ob-tain political control of theislands. On June 12 fifteen of the strikeleaders and newspaper editors were in-dicted for conspiring to incite disorder,three of them for conspiring to mur-der. The leaders immediately appealed. yellow fever. These facts, takentogether with the Cuban failingof lavishing enormous expendi-tures on diplomatic representa-tion of questionable value, andthe quite evident inabilit} on thepart of President Gomez to with-stand the pressure of graspingpoliticians, have caused a revivalof the discussion as to whetherthe time may not soon comewhen the United States mustagain intervene. President Taftand the State Department arewatching Cuban affairs veryclosely just now. GENERAL GOMEZPRESIDENT OF CUBA. (Thinking about apossible tbird Amer-ican intervention.)From Figaro (Ha-vana). Cuba and Spains Debt. The report lastmonth that the ques-tion of Cubas re-sponsibility for a portion of theSpanish public debt had beenraised serlouslj in IVIadrid wasalso disquieting. The Spanishcontention is that in the nego-tiations which resulted in the Treaty ofParis between Spain and the United States,In 1898, the American envoys declinedto make a decision on this point
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