JAPAN’S NAVAL POLICY

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 January 1936, Page 7

JAPAN’S NAVAL POLICY

INTIMATION TO U.S.A.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, January 24.

The “News-Chonicle’s” Tokio correspondent says: “Unless America renounces her naval policy now aimed at the expansion and protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend her fleet’s cruising radius to New Guinea, Celebes and Borneo, and also to establish footholds in Formosa and in her mandated South Sea Islands,” said Admiral Takahashi, the Commander of the Combined Naval Forces, when making, at the Osaka Club, the first statement of Japanese policy since the Naval Conference at London rejected Japan’s demand for parity.' He added that Japan’s only objective was national defence, which was an example that the United States should follow. Japan’s trade advance in Manchukuo, he said, would soon reach the limit, thus necessitating an expansion of trade in the South Pacific.

Admiral Takahashi did not refer to the British intrests in the Pacific Ocean, although they are as extensive as America’s interests.

STRUGGLE FOR TRADE.

(Recd. January 25, 10 a.m.)

TOKIO, January 24.

While politicians and militarists are devoted to westward expansion on the Asiatic continent, industrialists are increasingly directing attention to expansion southward, notably Australia, New Zealand, Dutch Indies, Siam and the Philippines. There are constant references in the press. For instance, Kaichiro Ishihara, an influential industrialist and shipping magnate, in a lengthy magazine article says: The Australian and New Zealand wages and prices of commodities, are high, due to the unnatural exclusion of Japanese, and the restrictions on Japanese goods, therefore the Japanese should not hesitate to extend their influence to such countries, whenever a chance comes, which would solve, all Japanese problems. The Dutch are even more crafty than the British. Japan should ally herself with Germany and the Soviet to withstand British despotism in the Orient.