Second Edition Japan

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 27 February 1918, Page 6

Second Edition Japan

OERtoAN- MENACE IW EAST.

ALLIED PRESS COMMENT.

rfe.m ABSop^ticv--C , rtpyH i: ;ht i - Australian and K.Z. Gable Association. (Received a.3 pan.) . London, February 26. T«V ; British' and French newspapers are discussing Japan's attitude towards Rlussia in view of the Bolshevists' shameful. capitulation. The Daily Chronicle says: Japan s refusal to send troops to Europe is ' natural and inevitable,: Japan is not a European nation, but/now that Russia in Asia looms before the German ambition as one of tlie spoils of war, the situation is different. If the Allies can come to a practical agreement with Japan, later she may take a military part in the common strugS French newspapers, generally express the opinion that it is time for Japan to act, as the German peril m the East is too real to be ignored. Le Temps says Germany's new dream is a road from Berlin'to Tokio, instead of Mm, Berlin- ; . to Bagdad, Japan uhdorsta'nds the danger to the people of Russia longer sufficient to police Siberia. War must be waged.there. Every day German influence is. dragging the keys of Vladivostok westward.