JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19391, 28 July 1926, Page 12

JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC.

AMERICA BEING WATCHED. FEARS OF DOMINATION. WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY. IMPLICATION RESENTED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. A. and X Z VANCOUVER. July 26. .\fajor-Geiieral J- H. Marßnen, chief of the staff of the Canadian .Militia, delivered an address f.t the Canadian Club in "Victoria, He swd :

" Australians have irritated Japan by their policy of a 'Wh'te Australia. this is. because a suggestion of Japanese inferiority is implied in the policy rather than because the Japanese wish to go to the island continent."

The speaker went on to say that Japan will anxiously wat'jh any step the United Statps ruav take toward the establishment

nf aviation stations on the Aleutian Islands. The fear that the United States may attempt to dominate the North Pacific is also fostered in Japan by the continued fortification of Pearl Harbour and other Hawaiian liases, said General MaclSrien.

.Japan also realised that the completion of the Panama Canal had doubled the effectiveness of the naval strength of the United States in the Pacific.

It was an irony of fate that the United States, which bad compelled Japan to abandon her isolation, should now find Japan her greatest rival in the Far East.