JAPAN’S EXPANSION

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 9

JAPAN’S EXPANSION

British Interests Roused COMMERCE AND NAVY London, June 9. The “Sun” representative, says that the Japanese demand for naval parity with England and America, coupled with the trade threat, will bring the Pacific more importantly into world problems than ever before. It is not expected that Japan will press for parity until the 1935 Conference. but her breaches of the Washing ton Treaty are causing the utmost perturbation. Japan undertook not to attack China, not to seek a variation of 5-5-3 ratio, and not to fortify the Pacific, but she abused the agreement by attacking China, then demanded naval parity with England and America, and is now ruthlessly assaulting world trade. The British Government is anxious and the position is being constantly discussed in London and Tokio, so far without signs of a solution.

The “Daily Mail’s” Tokio correspondent says that as a result of India’s tariff on non-British cotton goods Japan has virtually declared a tariff war against Britain. The Japanese Foreign Office indicates that it will neither support nor oppose the boycott.

The Foreign Office and Ministries of Finance pnd Commerce are reported to have conferred, and decided to seek an emergency ordinance for retaliatory tariffs on Empire goods, probably enforcing them In July. It is intended to levy prohibitive duties specifically on Australian wool and vheat. Canad lan timber and wheat, English machines and steel, and Indian cotton and iron.