Japan's Naval Power To-Day.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 31 July 1905, Page 5

Japan's Naval Power To-Day.

The United States looks with anxious eyes upon the possibility of any undue increase in Japan's naval power, and the following comments by the Chicago littrr Ocean are typical of the attitude of the country's press on the subject:•- "Japan's sea power in the Pacific has been as bravely won as England's in the Atlantic. But it is an intolerable idea that this country should allow Japan to take in hand the naval keys to the Pacific as England was allowed, through a series of deplorable errors, to take in had the naval keys to the Atlantic. It is the grave duty of the Hon. John Hay to see to it that the whole iniluence of the United States Government among the powers'be used to limit Japan's war indemnity to be collected from Russia in money, which would be invested at once in a still larger and stronger Japanese navy." The journal further adds that the Panama canal should be completed with all possible speed so as to double, at the earliest moment, the efficiency of the United States navy.