JAPAN'S IMPERATIVE POLICY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 3

JAPAN'S IMPERATIVE POLICY.

FULLY OCCUPIED. f»t *SLBoßAtfl="3ttßolAl TO TUB tOST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Colonel 0. W, S. Patterson, Coast Defence Commander for the Auckland Military district, who has just returned from a visit to the East, ha« given his impressions of affairs in that part of the world to the preeg. Ho considers that

an exaggerated idea prevails a« to the prospective danger from extensive colonisation of Australia's Northern Territory by the little brown man. At the present time Japan is fully occupied keeping a watchful eye on the movementsr of Russia to secure a Pacific port for the great fertile Trans-Baikal region and the stride* ahe is making in populating Southern Ma-nchiiria, What ever aims Japan may have in regard to colonisation, her imperative policy is to concentrate population in Southern Manchuria and Korea rather than to scatter, because «h© is surrounde.3 by Russia, China, and America, with millions of people respectively, and the proportion of population must be maintained. With the extension of the treaty Australia should have at least ten years' respite. The renewal of the Anglo-Japanese treaty is considered by Mr. Patterson to be a good thing for America, as well as for Australia. America was a good deal .scared of a, rupture with ' Japan, thinks Mr. Patterson, and although many people jn the East said there was flo ill feefing with America, it was felt that v there was right throueh the States.