ENEMY AND THE PACIFIC.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 163, 8 July 1918, Page 4

ENEMY AND THE PACIFIC.

IMIBRN-ATIONIAL LEAGTJE' AGAINST OERMANiy. AMERICAN SENATOR'S RESOLUTION 1 . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Afcf-ociation.) WASHmGTON 1 , July 5. Senator i»Saulsbury introduced a resolution urging that the United States, Britain, and Japan should come to an agreement to prevent aggression in the Pacific. The resolution stipulates that' Germany shall be permanently barred from naval bases iiuthe Pacific.

The resolution also provides:—"lt is /opportune for the Governments ofthe | United -States, Britain, and Japan to j enter into a lasting agreement to render it inexpedient for anyone and imi possible for the Central Powers to pur--1 sue methods of warfare' in the Pacific Ocean which 'are hot" justified by the laws of warfare."

It further provides_that China, Russia, and any other Government on the Pacific littoral may be admitted as* signartories "to the agreement, and~ also tliat no warships of 1 any, Power which hap pursued or shall pursue illegal methods of warfare on the high seas shall be permitted' to liold ports or possessions in tlie Pacific whence such warfare may be waged. ' The resolution stipulates that the agreement shall be 'by the united power of "the signatories. > ■ Tlie resolution is interpreted as -the first fruits of Mr-Hughes's declaration favouring Australia's Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific. ,