JAPAN & PEACE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 14 March 1910, Page 5

JAPAN & PEACE.

ASSARANGE FROM BARON KAMURA-

WAR WITH AMERICA A CRIME

INTERESTS NOT ANTAGONISTIC

[Press Association—Copyright.] (Rec. March 14, 8.5 a.m.)

TOKIO, Sundav

Baron Kamura, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a message to the "New York World." says that he is convinced that there is nothing in the relations between Japan and America that need cause real uneasiness. Thei>Far Eastern interests were not inconsistent or antagonistic . and war was inconceivable. It would be a crime without excuse or palliation. He adds: "My conviction finds ample support in the understanding reached in 1908."

The "New York Herald," commenting on Mr Sehiffs recent statement, says in explanation that ho did not mean war. but a struggle for commercial opportunities in China. The paper adds that in any case the speech was singularly illtimed, as all nations were co-operating to solidify peace. Japan's offence apparently was not so much conspiring to keep China in vassalage as in herself failing to remain in vassalage to the money lenders.