DEMOCRACY AND ARMS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14776, 15 October 1921, Page 5

DEMOCRACY AND ARMS

JAPANESE COMMENTS. DISARMAMENT WELCOMED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 14, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, October 13. At the International Economic Cor ference at Caxton Hall, in discussir tiie reduction of armaments, the Japar ese representative said that fhoug Japan was often blamed for being th most militaristic country in the worb disarmament would be more welcome ' there than by any other nation, for th I reason that Japan is spending near! j half of her revenue on armaments, be cause it was not thoroughly demo era tic Unless every nation ]pecam demobilised and the workers wer> effectively represented, any world conference or the League of Nations couk have no rar-reaching and truly settlin. effect on world conditions. AN INTOLERABLE BURDEN. JAPAN LEARNS A LESSON. (Australian and N-Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 14, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, October 13. i •. Viscount Kano, a Japanese industrialist, speaking at the conference on Economic recovery, said Japan was accused of being the most militarist country in the world, but the failure of Prussianism had taught Japan a striking lesson. She was finding' the burden of armaments intolerable. It was economic ambition that compelled the United States to summon the Washington Conference. There was a great conflict between America and Japanese, interests in Mongolia.