WIDE EXPANSION OF JAPAN'S INFLUENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 9

WIDE EXPANSION OF JAPAN'S INFLUENCE.

MODERN TREWS.

Eyes of Industrialists Turn

Southward.

MILITARISTS WESTWARD

United Press Association. —Copyright,

(Received 10 a.m.)

TOKYO, January 24,

While politicians and militarists are devoted to westward expansion in the Asiatic continent, industrialists are increasingly directing their attention to expansion southward, notably in Australia, New Zealand, Dutch Indies, Siam and the Philippines. There are constant references in the Press. For instance, Mr. Kaichiro Ishihara, an influential Imperialist, industrialist and shipping magnate, in a lengthy magazine article, says that Australian and New Zealand wages and prices of commodities are high due to the unnatural exclusion of Japanese and restrictions on Japanese goods, ■ for which Japanese should not hesitate to extend their influence in such countries wherever a chance comes which would solve all Japanese problems. The Dutch are even more crafty than the British. Japan should ally with Germany and the Soviet to withstand British despotism in the Orient. "Unless America renounces her naval policy aimed at the expansion and protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend her fleet's cruising radius to New Guinea, Celebes and Borneo, and to establish footholds in Formosa and the mandated South Sea Islands," said Admiral Takaliaslii, commander of the combined naval forces, making at the Osaka Club his first statement of policy since the London Naval. Conference's rejection of Japan's demand for parity. Admiral ' Takaliaslii added that Japan's only objective was national defence, " which was an example the United States should follow. Japan's trade advance in Manchukuo would soon reach its limit, necessitating expansion in the South Pacific.

Admiral Takahashi did not refer to British interests in the Pacific, although they are as extensive as those of America.