JAPAN & AMERICA.
PROSPECT OF COMPETITIVE EXPANSION. ACCORDING TO ADMIRAL TAKAHASHI. “FOOTHOLDS” IN MANDATED ISLANDS. (Received Friday, 6.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 23. The “News-Chronicle” Tokio correspondent says: “Unless America renounces a naval policy aimed at expansion and the protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend her fleet’s cruising radius to New Guinea, Celebes and Borneo, and establish footholds in Formosa and the mandated South Sea Islands,” said Admiral Takahashi, commander of the combined naval forces, when making, at the Osaka Club, the first statement of policy since the Naval Conference’s rejection of the demand for parity. He added that Japan’s only objective was national defence, which was an example the United States should follow. Japan’s trade advance in Manchukuo would soon reach its limit necessitating expansion in the South Pacific. Admiral Takahashi did not refer to British interests in the Pacific, although they are as extensive as America’s.
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Wairarapa Age, 25 January 1936, Page 5
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