DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 November 1924, Page 8

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

Restoring N?ry. mociuox o;-' sew ggvhhx--1- oabie —Press Asso-iutum- rifrbt. 4 >-si r» linn nr--l < A r.-ililo A -<i. L"jND ON, X 0 v. 10. The Navy is alive to the urgency oi Lord Jellicoe’s warning for the need of first-class cruisers for defence of the trade routes. It is learned that Mr Baldwin .immediately revised the programme for building eight cruisers which Labour reduced to five. MENACE IN THE PACIFIC. . AIR AYILFORD’S VIEWS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, Nov. 20. Mr T. AI. Wilford, interviewed, speaking of the Pacific problems, said the Japanese, as a people, were not internationally aggressive. He knew however, that despite the pacific natures of the people, the Elder Statesmen of Japan had the private ear of the Emperor, and it was on their whisperings that decisions ot war were arrived at. Mr AVilford said the exclusion laws of America would never furnish v cause of exclusion. The laws of Japan, though not so called, were equally effective against the United States, as against every nation of the world. No foreigner could ■engage in agriculture in Japan, nor could he hold property or practice the professions without impossible conditions. Mr Wilford stated that Japan did not want to fight Australia or New Zealand; she wanted only an alteration in our immigration laws. There was no necessity for her to be aggressive if we were willing to have them, said Air Wilford; but we were not willing.

EXTENSION OF JAPANESE INFLUENCE. RADIO STATION FOR YAP ISLAND Bv Cable —Tress Association —Copyright. Australian, and N. 3. Association TOKIOj Nor. 19. The War Office has decided to erect a radio station on Yap Island, in accordance with Article 11. of the Yap agreement between America and Japan.