THE HARDING CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 August 1921, Page 5

THE HARDING CONFERENCE

■-'■•■ I JAPAN'S ATTITUDE. | TtY CABLE—PEESB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, Aug. 11. ' The Morning Post's correspondent says that a study of the Japanese vernacular Press indicates a suspicious attitude towards the Washington Conference. Since Senator Knox tried to internationalise the Manchurian railway Japan will not accept America's proposals without the most careful in- . vestigatidn. " . i JCl^apan realises that without the assist-1 jKbce of Western finance she could not liave prosecuted past wars, and this fact tt making her cautious, as in her future she may possibly by squeezed by. Western finance. She"regards Presi- ' iflent Harding's proposal as a new move' /in the control of Asia, which will decide f the fate of ,the Pacific natives by the Occidentals. She is afraid of Wing! orawn into new combinations of Powers ! which t may, possibly menace her longcherished independence.