THE JAPANESE MENACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15594, 28 April 1914, Page 7

THE JAPANESE MENACE.

PROPHECY BY A SENATOR. UNITED STATES ISOLATION. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] San Francisco, April 1. In American official circles the situation in .Mexico tends to cause greater and greater uneasiness. 'A sensational speech delivered in the ScuaAe yesterday by Senator Lewis, of Illinois, is indicative of the dire consequences which in some quarters it is believed would follow intervention in the affairs of the neighbouring republic. Senator Lewis foresees all sorts of European and Asiatic con plications as possibilities. "The very first moment we move down into Mexico with a view of executing the Monroe Doctrine against those foreign nations who have now stationed themselves there on the theory that we no longer had a right to execute the doctrine because of our past folly," he said, "Japan would seize the Philippine

Islands. She would then seize Hawaii, and then, in such conditions— armies in Mexico, the canal not finished, no way to have a junction for our navy— what condition would our country be ? Russia, with her grievances, who sent aid to the union at a time when it was threatened with disunion, feels that because of British influence the administration in power during the last 10 years lent its aid to Japan against her. Russia, remembering this wrong, now in an offensive and defensive alliance of life and death with Japan, would not lose her opportunity. Russia, with her grievances so great that she has no treaty with the United States of either companionship or amity, would promptly aid by seizing Alaska. Our navy, divided, would sail in the frigid sea against the enemy, and to the south to protect the Philippine Islands. The army would be divided, part in Mexico, and the other part moving to our possessions to protect them. South America, already imbued witb a feeling that, under the Roosevelt Administration, we performed a Caesarian operation upon Columbia and excised from her the government of Panama, only awaits that it may duplicate the performance upon one equally defenceless on the south near the canal, furnishing supplies to the enemy and supporting the assault. In what a splendid condition wo would stand! Sad indeed it is to contemplate !"