JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC
■ f T t ,, HER PROTECTION ASSURED COLONIES SHOULD NOT BE RETURNED (Received February 27, 9 a.m.) 'SYDNEY, This Day. The Japanese Consul-General, in a lecture, referring to the war, said : "Sou may rest assured that Japan, during and after the war, .will be found protecting the general peace in tlje Pacific with all her power, indefatigably and energetically, so that justice and the common interests of mankind shall prevail instead of drutal militarism." There was a strong desire in Japan, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, that the German colonies in the Pacific should not be handed back to Germany. If they were peace in the Pacific could not be regarded as secure from the operations threatened and dangerous elements.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 7
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126JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 7
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