THE PACIFIC PROBLEM

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16258, 8 July 1918, Page 8

THE PACIFIC PROBLEM

AN AMERICAN RESOLUTION

By Cable.—Prena Association.—Copyrip-t.l tAustralian and N.Z Cable Association.)

(Received July 7th, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 4,

Senator Saulsbury has introduced a resolution urging the United States, Britain, and Japan, to como to an agreement to prevent German aggression in the Pacific. The resolution stipulates that Germany must be permanently barred from naval bases in the Pacific, and also provides:—"lt is op-pox-tune for the Governments of the United States, Britain, and Japan to enter into a lasting agreement to render it inexpedient for anyone, and impossible for the Central Powers, to pursue methods of warfare in the Pacific Ocean which are not justified by the laws of warfare."

The resolution further provides that China, Russia, and any other Government on the Pacifio littoral may be admitted as signatories to the agreement, also that, no warships of any Power which has pursued, or shall pursue, illegal methods of warfare on the high seas, shall be permitted to hold ports or possessions in the Pacifio, whence such warfare may be waged.

The resolution stipulates that the agreement shall be enforced by the united power of the signatories.

The resolution is interpreted as the first fruits of Mr Hughes's declaration favouring an Australian Monroe doctrine in the Pacific.