MISTRESS OF THE PACIFIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1912, Page 2

MISTRESS OF THE PACIFIC

I.TV3». JAPAN’S AMBITION AND WHAT IT

MEANS

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Deceived this day, at 9 a.m. LONDON, June 30. Mr. I logic, oi Sydney, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, deals with tiio growing Japanese power and says that the Japanisation of China will eventually make Japan the mistress of the East.

He emphasises Australia’s vulnerability and adds that any power holding Australia holds the key to the South Pacific. He instances the recent Japanese Antarctic expedition, which lie describes as merely part of the design to spy out the Pacific territory. Australian opinion was that in the event of an Anglo-German war, Japan

v add take decisive act ion in the South Pacific. The keeping of Australia concerned not merely Britain but also ihe United States and European Powers and this consideration alone ought to keep Germany from quarrelling with Britain, or Britain from thwarting Germany’s African expansion.