PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14144, 16 June 1920, Page 6

PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

THE JAPANESE MENACE. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Associa ion.) v LONDON, Monday. The Hon. Mr Theodore, Premier of Queensland, in an article in the Beiievv of Reviews, entitled ‘ Case Against the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, ’■ says: “The storv of Japanese faithfulness to the Allies has been praised from every platform, but who has put the other side, or told of the quid pro quo wMe,li she demanded, or, worse still, .her actual ultimatum to Australia while the war was in progess? Mr Theodore adds: ‘ The people oi. Australia are not prepared for a re newal of the Treaty, except in a considerably modified form. -Japan is reapin'-- all' the benefits of the present Alliance. Australians, rightly or wronglv, feel that a Japanese penetration in the Pacific Islands is potential danger, which is not minimised bv the Japanese mandate over certain islands. • Australia’s democratic sentiment is outraged by the injustice of Japanese treatment of China. Can -Britain righteously renew a. Treaty adrnit.fiug of the spoliation of the Chinese.