LATE WAR NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS

THE PACIFIC COLONIES. "'

GERMANY'S LITTLE GAME,

ENDEAVOUR TO CAUSE AsN'CLO- ' JAPANESE FRICTION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (ißec. Julv 4. 1.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM; July 3. The Vossische Zeitung says that. no German politician doubts the restoration of the Pacific colonies, but should Ger many ultimately permit negotiations for <?ale or exchange she would ignore England and negotiate with Japan, recognising that the Pacific is its natural-sphere. The insolent rerusal of the English Imperialists to allow the Allies to deal with the enemy with reference to the colonies shows, that they are opposed to Japanese interests. CHINA AND GERMANY. EXPORT O>F GOODS TO RUSSIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (ißec. July 4, 1.10 p.m.) LO'N'EOIN, July 3. The Daily Mail's Harbin corresponded tsays that the Chinese are sending to Russia large quantities of cottons, blankets, fats and other goods, vitally needed in 'Germany. .Since the removal of the embargo on exports, which was originally intended to secure complete German blockade in the Far East. China has been acting in good faith, but there is reason to believe that the goods are passing Irkutsk and reach the Germans. The danger would not have arisen if the Allies had intervened 1 and controlled the western trade routes.