JAPANESE BOGEY

Southland Times, Issue 18969, 16 June 1923, Page 5

JAPANESE BOGEY

LOYALTY TO BRITAIN UNQUESTIONED. AUSTRALIAN’S IMPRESSIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 15. (Received June 15, 8.10 p.m.) Mr Walter Marks, a member of the Federal Parliament returned from an extended visit to Japan. He deprecates keeping alive the Japanese bogey. He says Japan is loyally abiding by the terms of the Washington Treaty. She could take Australia at any time the spirit moved her. Nothing could stop her, but this she would not do for many reasons, main ones being her desire for friendship with the British Empire and secondly because she has no desire to be a participant in the greatest naval battle ever seen, that between the British and Japanese fleets. The repeated cry in Australia, “Look out, Japan will take us,” was not only senseless, but an ungenerous and unpardonable insult to the nation that rendered Australia such splendid service during the war and had been supremely loyal to her Ally, Britain. Mr Marks said he was strongly struck by prospects of wide trade expansion with the East. In this connection he mentioned that New Zealand butter had a ready market in China as against Australian. Goods from Australia were handicapped by bad labelling, grading and packing. ILwykß dii jii cmfwyp cmfwyp mfwyp