OUR ALLY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 5

OUR ALLY.

AUSTRALIAN SYMPATHY FOR AMERICA. A PEACEFUL JAPAN. NO DISTRUST OF BRITAIN'S POWER. Tot ISIBOKArS— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrYHIGHT.) (Rec. Soptember 4, 9.7 p.m.) London, Septomber 4. The Melbourne* correspondent of "Tho Times," referring to an American newspaper's suggestion that Australians distrust Britain's will or power to protect thehi against possiblo hostilities, writes:—"l say emphatically that I havo heard no such suggestion, oven in quarters whero it might havo be«n expected." Ho adds: " Britain may. be confident there is no feeling. of tho kind at all."

" The Times," in a leading article welcoming BaTon Kato's appointment as Japaneso Ambassador to Britain, remarks that Japan's programme of retrenchment and the postponement of tho exhibition are a clear indication of a determination to develop the country's economic strength, and should allay to the extent of 50 per cent, tho tremors of imaginative persons regarding Japan's supposed bellicose aspirations. The " Westminster Gazette" says that while Australia welcomes tho White Fleet, sympathises with American difficulties on the Pacific Coast, and shares with tho United States a desire to exclude Asiatic aliens, Australia knows that the Imperial Government must act as trustee for tho Empire. However much she dislikes the Japanese alliance on sentimental grounds, Australia cannot say she is injured. Japan also knows that a British colony—vido South Africa— has the fullest rights to exclude foreigners and even British subjects. V New Ytirk, Septembor 4. The "Evening Post," Now York, doubts whether the anti-Japanese feeling in Australasia is permanent or sincero, and whether the obvious difficulties of a Japanese attack upon her coasts' will not ultimately dispel Australia's fears.