JAPAN'S GROWTH

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 7

JAPAN'S GROWTH

WILL BE MISTRESS OF THE EAST EYES ON SOUTH PACIFIC • — - H CONCERN OF AUSTRALIA'S .VULNERABILITY. By Telegr«pn.— *ree» Assoolatton.— Copyright. (Received July 1, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 30th June. Tho Hon. J. A. Hogue, of Sydney, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, deals with the growth of Japanese power. ' The JapanisatWn of China, he says, will eventually make Japan mistress of the east. The writer emphasises Australia's vulnerability, and adds : '.'Any Power holding Australia holds the key of South Africa.' Mr. Hogue instances the recent Japanese Antarctic expedition as merely part of a design to spy out Pacific territory. The Australian opinion, in the event of an Anglo-German war, is that Japan will take decisive action in the South 'Pacific. The keeping of Australia, the article continues, not merely concerns Great Britain, but the United Statea and European Powers. This consideration alone ought to keep Germany from quarrelling with Great Britain, or Britain from thwarting Germany's African expansion.