AMERICA AND JAPAN
NOTHING ANTAGONISTIC IN THEIR INTERESTS. 6y relesra-ph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 13. Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a message to the " New York World," says he is convinced there is nothing in the relations between Japan and America that need ca«se real uneasiness. Their Far Eastern interests are not inconsistent or antagonistic. War is inconceivable ; it would be a crime without excuse or palliation. "My conviction," he adds, "finds ample support in the understanding reached in 1908." The "New York Herald," commenting on Mr Jacob SchifPs (the financier) explanation that his recent speech condemnatory of • an alliance between Russia, Japan, and Britain as tending to menace the world's peace, did not mean war, but a struggle for commercial opportunities in China, says: "In any case the speech was singularly ill-timed, when all the nations were co-operating to solidify peace. Japan's offence is apparently not so much conspiring to keep China in vassalage as in herself failing to remain in vassalage to the money-' lenders."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 1
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