The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918. JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 June 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918. JAPANESE INTERVENTION.

(With which is Incorporated The Xaihape Post and Walcmrl-ao News).

The day of Japanese intervention in the war on a mighty scale seems to be drawing very near. A leading Japanese newspaper, in its preparation of Japan and the world for what is at hand, says: "Prompt action alone can save England, France and all humanity. The Allies will soon request Japanese intervention; Japan stands like an archer with bow bent. Japan’s army exists in vain if it is not used to win the game which divides the world. Japan must march to the Ural Mountains, or beyond, until the main German army is encountered. Japan must go as far as is necessary to check the Germans; Japanese fear no difficulties and shrink from no sacrifices, fully realising the Allies must win or succumb to Teutonic domination.” The newspaper that wrote the foregoing is, without doubt, in possession of that information which prompted such strong words, and it is not improbable tha,t the article of which they are a part was the result of official instruction. Why this intervention has been delayed until the blood of the best manhood of Britain, France and Belgium is near being drained to the dregs is not understandable with the information available. A Japanese march through Russia will meet with considerable opposition, but the Russians are so fully satisfied, at the present time, that they are to become slaves to Germany if nothing is done by the Allies to save them, that by far the bulk of populace and army will welcome help from any quarter. This Japanese outspoken article on intervention can only mean that full arrangements have been made and that Asiatic Russia will soon be swarming with the warlike brown men. Public opinion and feeling in Siberia will render the keeping safe of the long system of communications between Vladivostock and Irkutsk, and further if needs be, tolerably easy. Japan stands ready with bow bent, and itarrows will soon be piercing the Ural Mountains; Germany shall not be allowed to recruit more millions from conquered peoples wherewith to go on draining the blood of the Allies. A British newspaper states that the German High Command has ordered Falkenhayn to send every available soldier from Russia. Such a numerically indeterminate order means that Falkenhayn is to use presure of all kinds, cruel and cunning: he must leave no means unresorted to in cozening and compelling men of all tribes and peoples in the East to enter the German service, and so urgently are men needed that the first contingents must arrive on the West front within a week. It seems that Austria also has an urgent need for assistance in Italy, where Germany’s partner in crime is also suffering defeat at the hands of the Allies. Ludendorff has admitted that his total present strength cannot achieve even a stalemate, and he is going to bring every man that is available from Russia and Poland —probably from Finland —to rescue him from the colossal defeat that awaits him; from the Sword of Damocles that hangs over him ready to be cut loose by the American millions. The war vista runs red with streams of blood; no sacrifice is evidently too great, too appalling, too .sickening to contemplate by the Kaiser and his god of war that might save his dirty house from defeat and destruction. Ludendorff sees Austria crumbling to pieces, Bulgaria unwilling to again lift the sword, and Turkey in the last stages of war anaemia, and press-gang methods are all that is left him wherewith to try and avert the punishment of Germany’s unprecedented guilt of national crime. Every available man that Falkenhayn can scrape together in the East is to be

despatched to the West front immediately; Japan has read the message and now stands with bow bent to frustrate the committal of this last great crime. So long as the Central Powers used their own men for lighting their lights for world domination Japan

stood aloof, knowing that Western nations would bring Germany to the earth, but when the House of Hohenzollern djyres to enslave the peoples in invaded countries, and to compel them by force to give their lives in millions to establish German right by might to enslave the whole world, Japan realises that it is time to strike. The Japanese army exists in vain if it permits Germany to win the game that divides the world. Not content with' sacrificing German blood, the Kaiser and his war lords have' determined to pour out the blood of all peoples upon which they can lay hands. Before the world to-day is a mental vision of bloodshed and human butch-* ery that is only limitable by Germany’s power to use every life in all countries invaded as well as life still availabe in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey. What our men in France and the men in the armies of our allies would have to "suffer in contending with such forces as Germany has commenced to gather, is too awful for conjecture. Will Japanese intervention come in time ? Will Hre -strained bow-string be loosed before considerable life is sacrificed? Can America put sufficient men into the fighting line in time to withstand the millions Falkenhayn has orders to send westward? For answers to these questions we have not long to wait, as Germany must strike quickly and continuously from now on, suffer defeat, or collapse altogether.