NEW TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2498, 12 June 1920, Page 7

NEW TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

JAPANESE MAKE SUGGESTION. > j "AMERICA VITALLY CON- j CERXED.” J WOULD BE WELCOMED AS THIRD PARTY. ! Tokio, May 28. { M. Okimia. a former Premier of I Japan, in an interview, declared: — I Tin' A liglo-Japaiieee Alliance is j more than ever necessary in view of *l tin- post-war conditions in tile wo-rlrl, and more especially tile Orient. "Dangers,” he said, “threaten China. Siberia, anel India, particu 1 arly the latter with the- Bolsheviks 11 1 n atenilig its borders. The knowh'elge that Japan will not- interfere with Inelia. whatever happens, will .re.it ly encourage the Rod*. "The League of Nations.'’ he cont ; lined, "is not solid enotigh morally to safeguard trie world. This is , shown through the Anglo-French Allianec and tin !>"(',-.a; refusal of the I’nited States to ratify the Peace Treaty. 1 "Britain and Japan. as eontraettt; : parties to the a bailee. ■ ao-( not alone interested. An.era a 1 Is \ tally mm-ei! <1 in Oriental ]ieace. and would he welcomed into the all iam e, making a triple; eflicieney guara tito< ing peace. "British residents in China and f some Austin. bins.” he dorlaftd, “are I taking a siij>or fieri 1 view, believing! that, the alliance ini|«)Mis one-sided* obligations on the British. Japan played a signife-.;nt part during the war in guarding the Pacific transport routes, and in fiustrnting German J designs tn Russia, besides being a j constant and faithful ally.”