ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 16 June 1920, Page 5

ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

VIEWS OF QUEENSLAND t PREMIER,.

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(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 14. Mr E. G. Theodore- (Premier of Queensland), in an article in the Review of Reviews, entitled "The Case Against the Anglo-Japanese Alliance," says: "The story of Japan's faithfulness to the Allies have been praised from every platform, but who has put the other side, or told of the quid pro quo which she demanded, or, worse still, her actual ultimatum to Australia, while the war was in progress?" Mr Theodore adds: "The people of Australia are not prepared for a renewal of the treaty, except in a considerably ' modified form. Japan is reaping all the benefits of the present alliance. Australians, rightly or wrongly, feel that the Japanese penetration m the Pacific islands is a potential danger, which is not minimised by the •Japanese mandate over certain islands. Ihe Australians' democratic sentiment is outraged by the injustice of the Japanese treatment of China. Can Britain righteously renew the treaty admitting of the spoliation of the Chinese?"