AMERICA'S POSITION.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13057, 17 March 1911, Page 3

AMERICA'S POSITION.

THE FUTURE OMINOUS

(Received March 16, 11.80 p.m.) v Berlin, March 16. H«rr Reventlow, in a statement on the balance, of power in the Pacific on which the events in Mexico will have an indirect influence, declares that the Russian 'defeat assured Japanese influence in the Far East, and recalls Admiral Dcwey's remark at Portsmonth that America ought to have attacked Japan earlier. The tension regarding the Californian schools controversy lasted until the visit of the American fleet induced tranquihty. Japan was then modernising her fleet and was unprepared for ■war. The unsuccessful dEFort to neutralise the Manchurian railway led to the RussoJapanese agreement, which there were probably secret clauses, henco America's foverishness to fortify the Panama Canal. Japan requires supremacy in the Pacific to retain her Chinese markets against America. The creation of an American commercial base at the Philippines would counteract Japan s geographical advantages. There are 62,000 Japanese at Hawaii capable of bearing arms, and only 1000 American troops, justifying General Homer Lea's dictum that the Japanese could capture Hawaii from within.