EXPANDING JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21690, 25 January 1936, Page 16

EXPANDING JAPAN

Move Toward South

Pacific

NEEDS OP TRADE

COUNTER TO AMERICAN

NAVAL PLANS

(UHITED PHIB3 ASSOCIATION—COPTJUOHT.)

(Received January 24, 10 p.m.)

LONDON, January 23. "Unless America renounces a naval policy aimed at expansion and the protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend the cruising radius of her fleet to New Guinea, the Celebes, and Borneo, and estabfootholds in Formosa and the mandated South Sea Islands." This statement by Admiral Takahashi, commander of the combined Japanese naval forces, is reported by the Tokyo correspondent of the "News-Chronicle."

Admiral Takahashi spoke at the Osaka Club, this being the first statement of Japanese policy since the naval conference rejected Japan's demand for parity. He 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, and this would make necessary expansion in the south Pacific. Admiral Takahashi did not refer to British interests in the Pacific, although they are as extensive as America's.