JAPAN'S POLICY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 25 January 1936, Page 5

JAPAN'S POLICY

PUSH IN PACIFIC THREAT TO DOMINIONS NAVAL PLANS DEFINED EXTENSION OF RANGES FOOTHOLD ON ISLANDS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 25, 11 a.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 24.. While politicians and militarists are devoted to westward expansion on the Asiatic continent, industrialists are increasingly directing attention to expansion southward, notably in Australia, New Zealand, the Dutch East Indies, Siam, and the Philippines.

There are constant references in the press. For instance, Mr. Kaichiro Ishihara, an influential industrialist and shipping magnate, in a lengthy magazine article, says Australian and New Zealand wages and the prices! of commodities are high, due to the unnatural exclusion of Japanese and the restrictions on Japanese goods. Therefore, the Japanese should not hesitate to extend their influence to such countries whenever the chance comes, which would solve all the Japanese problems. The Dutch, he says, are even more crafty than the British. Japan should ally herself with Germany -and the Soviet to withstand British despotism in the Orient.

The News-Chronicle's Tokio correspondent reports Admiral. Takahashi as saying that unless America renounces her naval policy aimed at the expansion and protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend her fleet's cruising radius to New Guinea, the Celebes, and Borneo, and to establish footholds at Formosa and in the mandated South Sea islands.

Admiral Takahashi, commander of the combined naval forces, gave that indication when making at the Osaka Club his first statement of policy since the rejection by the London Naval Conference of the demand for parity. He added that Japan's only objective was national defence, which was an example that the United States should follow. Japan's trade advance in Manchukuo would soon reach the limit, necessitating an expansion in the South Pacific. Admiral Takahashi did not refer to British interests in the Pacific, although they are as extensive as those of America.