WHAT JAPAN HAS DONE

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13274, 1 September 1916, Page 5

WHAT JAPAN HAS DONE

NAVAL GUNS FOR BRITAIN. MUNITIONS FOR RUSSIA. LONDON, August 31. Mr Robert Machray, formerly war editor of the Daily Mail, in an article in the Nineteenth Century; comments on Germany's past subtle and unfriendly policy towards Japan. He considers that Japan's great war contribution to the allies consisted in supplying munitions to Russia during the last year, equal in value to £20,000,000. Prior to the fall of Warsaw Japan supplied 750,000 rifles, and after August she mobilised all her industrial resources, thus enabling the Russians to renew the offensive in June. Japan also made 8,000,000 yards of cloth and released 2,000,000 yards from her stores. Besides guarding the eastern seas and convoying British transports to Suez, Japan supplied many rifles for Kitchener's army and guns for the British Navy, and she is still makingguns. Japan's munitions are half the price of American. Japan also released £10,000,000 worth of gold in New York for the purchase of British bonds and bought £5,000,000 worth of Russian bonds. Mr Machray quotes many other illustrations of Japan's great assistance to the allies.