Japan

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 16 December 1914, Page 5

Japan

HER RANK WITH THE GREAT WORLD-POWERS. j United Pbess Association. London, December 14.

The Times, in a leader, says that by shepherding Von Spee's squadron into the water where they met their doom, our Japanese allies enabled us to complete the work they so gloriously began by capturing Tsing-Tao. • The co-operation of the Australian and Japanese squadrons, and the deference to Australasian susceptibilities that Japan showed in handing over the Pacific Islands she had captured to the keeping of the Australian force, cannot but tend to modify the sentiments of the Dominions which sometimes threatened to raise delicate problems in the Pacific. It has demonstrated Japan's perception that the preservation, and victory of the Entente are the strongest bulwark of her position. By siding in this war with nations upholding the principles and traditions of European civilisation, she is proving her right and fitness to take rank with the great worldpowers, ..