BRITAIN AND JAPAN

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 5

BRITAIN AND JAPAN

; RENEWAL OF ALLIANCE DANGER OF PENETRATION IN PACIFIC. QUEENSLAND PREMIER DUBIOUS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Austral,a i, and N.ih Ca.As-uciatiea. (Received Juno 15, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jane 14. Mr E. G. Theodore (Premier of Queensland) in an article in the “Review of Revieibs," entitled “Case Against the Anglo-Japanesa Alliance,” says: “The story of Japan’s faithfulness to the Allies has been praised from every platform, but who lias put the Other side or told of the quid pro quo which she demanded, or, worse suU, her actual ultimatum to Australia while the war was in jirogross I” Air Theodore adds: "Ilie people of Australia' arc not prepared for a renewal of the Treaty except in a considerably modified form. Japan is reaping all the benefits of the present alliance.; Australians, rightly or wrongly,* feel that J upanese - penetration it the Pacific islands is a potential danger, which is noi minimised by the Japanese mandate over' certain islands. Australia's democratic) sentiment is outraged by the in justice-of Japanese treatment ol China. Can Britain righteously renew a Treaty admitting of thel spoliation of the Chinese f”