ARMAMENT CONFERENCE
JAPANESE DELEGATES’ PROPOSAL “WILL STAGGER THE WORLD.” (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian it N.Z. Cable Aiiociation.) LONDON, Oct. 27. Tho Daily Express states that it is now clear that Japan is far from being the most militaristic Power, and is likely to lead the race for naval disarmament, and may even offer to suspend her own building without asking Britain and the United States to do the same if her position in China is solved satisfactorily. Japanese statesmen feel that in, a financial race for command of the Pacific she must be beaten by the United States in the long run. Already the burdens of taxation are producing increasing discontent among the workers and commercial classes. The, Japanese delegates will make a proposal for naval disarmament which will stagger the world, but will ask for tho right peacefully to develop Manchuria and Shantung.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 28 October 1921, Page 5
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144ARMAMENT CONFERENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 28 October 1921, Page 5
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