JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC.
ALLEGED SINISTER DESIGNS. Sydney, January 30. Tho Japanese Consulate professes to know nothing of the reported new line of steamers for the Pacific Islands. Mr Cogswell, Deputy-BritisH' Commissioner at tho Gilbert Islands, at present in Sydney, says there is no reason that 'he knows of why Japan should run steamers thorp. The trade is insufficient to warrant it, Japan could gain nothing by seeking to settle the islands, and any atten|pt to seize them would embroil her with Britain, Germany and France. Japanese activity in the islands eannot .be directed towards trade or settlement, and she must have some other object, The only possible danger to Australia is that they might want to create secret depots and coaling stations, which would bo of great strategic importance m the event of an attack on Australia. ■ • .
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 31, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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138JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 31, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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