JAPS IN PACIFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 26, 31 January 1921, Page 5

JAPS IN PACIFIC.

• I EQUAL RIGHTS SOUGHT, j IN ISLANDS SOUTH OF LINE, j NEGOTIATIONS WITH BRITAIN. I (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ißecelved 11.30 a.m.) | TOKYO, January 30. Replying to questions in the Japanese [House of Parliament. Viscount Uchida, j Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that j negotiations were being conducted with | Greet Britain with the view of securing; equal treatment for coloured peoples in ! the !>outh Pacific Islands. The Treaty ' clauses as far as they dealt with the ! islands south of the Equator had not , yet been interpreted. Japan favoured a policy whieb would ensure equal oppor Minifies for Japunese aud British, and j desired to respect the administrations ! south of the Equator, which had been provided for by the mandates under the Treaty.— (Reuter.) PACT WITH GREAT BRITAIN. NEW YORK. January 30. j I The Tokyo correspondent of the United j Press of America quotes the newspaper : i"Rokumin" as stating that the Japanese I Government is planning a revision of the I ] Anglo-Japanese Alliance that will fret-| jJapati from its obligations. The paper says that this action is being taken iv consequence of a statement from Baron j ilayashi, the Japanese Ambassador in ; Umdon, interpreting the British view of | Article IV. of the Alliance as leaving 'Japan isolated and unprotected.— (A. j l and N.Z Cable) ! ___________ I