We liardly appreciate in China how deep is the feeling in Japan in reference to the conduct of the American -ex-missionaries and other adventurers who deposed Queen Liliuokalani, and assumed the government of Hawaii, with the openly avowed intention' of sooner or later handing the islands over to the United States. It is now practically certain that, as we suggested at the time, the blow dealt to Japan by the refusal to allow Japanese immigrants to land was intended to force the hand of President McKinley, and it has succeeded. "It need hardly be said," says the Kobe Chronicle, "that the Government of Japan will strongly: protest against the annexation of the islands by the United States, and that the Ministry will be urged by irresponsible politicians and the Press-not to rest satisfied with a simple protest." "But it will probably not be only the irresponsible politicians and the Press that will urge strong measures being taken. Japan will be practically unanimous and enthusiastic in the matter, while the United States will be divided, a very large section and that the more thoughtful section, being very much averse to the annexation. The Japanese demand an indemnity and the maintenance of - the-.nght. secured to them by treaty to send any-num-.. ber of emigrants to. the: islands,. and it is'doubtful mbether the States,
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