CLEAR STATEMENT BY JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 8

CLEAR STATEMENT BY JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE.

BY CA&B— PEESS" ASSOCIATIWN—COPYEIGHT

Received July 6, 9.10 a.m

TOKIO, July 5. The Foreign Office has issued a statement to the effect that by no stretch- of imagination can it honestly he said that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was desired or even remotely intended to be n\ed as an instrument of hostility or even defence against America.