JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9165, Issue 9164, 14 March 1910, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

WAR A CRIME WITHOUT EXCUSE.

JAPANESE STATESMAN SPEAKS. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Pbess Association, j Received March 14, 8.5 a.m. TOKIO, March 13. Baron Komura, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a message to tho New York World, says he is convinced there is nothing in the relations of Japan and America that need causo any real uneasiness. Their Far Eastern interests are not inconsistent or antagonistic, and war between them would bo inconceivable and a crime without excuse or palliation, two convictions which find ample support in the understanding reached in 1908. Tho New York Herald, commenting on this statement, says Mr Schiff's recent speech, in which he said the alliance between England, Russia and Japan was a menaco to the world, did not mean war but a struggle for commercial opportunities in China. In any case tho speech was singularly ill-timed when all nations were co-operating to solidify peace. Japan's offence apparently was not so much conspiring to keep China in vassalago as in herself failing to remain in vassalage to the money-lenders.