SHADOW OF WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6203, 7 October 1921, Page 5

SHADOW OF WAR

AMERICA AND JAPAN. INFORMATION DOES NOT WARRANT OPTIMISM. ''ST 1 " • (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received October 6, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 6. The Daily Express, discussing the possibility of war between 1 ’ the United States and Japan, asks, will the Washington Conference avert the peril? Our information does not warrant optimism. The public must understand that the country is standing again oni the verge of an abyss and that Imperial Interests in Canada, Australia, and the Far East are vitally threatened After pointing out causes of friction between the United States and Japan, the paper proceeds to say that beyond these causes of friction some indefinable impulse drives the United States to push its tentacles towards the Western Pacific, while .the surge of growing population and military ambition urges the Japanese to earmark the Pacific 'as her own. Unless these ambitions and impulses could be reconciled, the rival shipbuilding will proceed. When naval building has reached a certain point, probably about * 1923,-JLere will come another war. Australia- supported the Anglo-Japanese treaty because of the sure knowledge that the treaty would be her safeguard if and when the Eastern and Western Powers sprang at each other’s' throats, otherwise the first rush of the Oriental onset, taking the Philippines and Guam in its stride, would fall on Australia. —A. and N.Z.C.A.