AMERICA TO JAPAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13846, 4 September 1908, Page 5

AMERICA TO JAPAN.

REGARD AND FRIENDSHIP. THE TOKIO EXHIBITION. By Telegraph.— Association— (Received September 3, 11.30 p.m.) New York, September 3.. President Roosevelt, in a letter to Mr Elihu Root (Secretary of State), in reference to the postponement of the Tokio Exhibition, says "The people of the United States hold Japan in a peculiar feeling of regard and friendship, and no other nation is more anxious than we to make the exhibition a success." NAVAL POWER. ———*- p AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA. ~ A BARRIER t6 JAPAN. By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. London, September 2. The Standard, in a sympathetic article, regarding the ovation accorded to Admiral Sperry, says that Australians are a practical people. Australia's case as regards the defensive measures whereon her safety must partly depend, is the case of all the self-governing States of the Empire. Australia intends, the Standard proceeds, to build, and equip ' her own squadron, and where she leads the rest of the oversea States will probably follow. It wonld be an interesting experiment. The Washington correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says that American newspapers consider that the demonstrations denote the popular conviction that Australasian and i American naval power would, in an i emergency, become a barrier against i the extension of Japanese rule in the Pacific. " Some ;■ people consi der," says one paper, "that Australians cherish the same ideals as the United States, and are closer to us than to England." Another writer declares that there is no sentimentalism about blood being thicker than water, but enlightened self-interest. Sober writers suggest the existence in Australasia of a laek of confidence in the willingness and ability of the Motherland to protect Australasia against what is described as the Eastern peril. ■ The correspondent emphasises the exceedingly embarassing consequences of the tour to the Washington Government.