IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 5 July 1921, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

ANGLOS-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

JAPAN'S DESIRE

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, July 3.

M. Shidehara (Japanese Ainbassodar), in a statement, declared that the Anglo-Japanese alliance was never intended to be an instrument of l.os-' tility or defence against the United States, and the Senate's iailure to ap-j prove the Anglo-American arbitration treaty did not affect this. Japan was! naturally anxious to strengthen the ties of friendship and loyal co-opera-tion with the British Empire.. There was also a fixed determination that

nothing would hamper Japan's traditional goodwill, towards the United State; both affiliations were complimentary and essential. Japan fully realises that any venture at aggression in China woulcT Tbe hopeless 'of attainment and destructive to Japan's security. Japan desires to cultivate relations with China of mutual helpfulness and the alliance never, exerted influence in other directions.