NOTABLE JAPANESE AUDACITY.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 September 1919, Page 4

NOTABLE J APANESE AUDACITY.

.2-...-.. .‘p—— v—~— -——- Under irritation . at being refused passports to cross America on his way ‘To ‘the T?eace Confeujenfie -wt; Paris, Dr. Chung, the Korean Ermoy, openly confessed Japan ’s national goal. It Has been obvious if the latter stages of the W3l‘, and more pafticulax-ly e’inc_p the Armistice was signed, that the Japanese had become consumed with

the ambition to engineer domination of the world. Gcrmany’s failure was Japan ’s opportunity, «and the deter-min. ati-on to pursue the opportunity is not veiled by the slightest camouflage. KOICIL has been seized, and the country has been Japanised more thoroughly‘ fhran Gclmany Tcutoniscd Alsace and Lorraine; Japan is_ clinging to dishonest possession of Shantung, claiming precedence in Manchuria. and pushing on to Mongolia, and now no less a, pcrsion-age than a chosen Envoy to the Peace Conference, in a fit of passion, discovers to the world exactly what Japan’s ultimate is intended to be. After reading what‘ this Japanese Envoy of Peace has in mind, which no doubt reflects the ofiicial mind of all Japan, there can be no difference of opinion about a League. of Nations being more essential to the peace and safety of America than to any other western people. The Japanese Envoy plainly states that, “when Japan attains her national goal of uniting all Asia under her ‘dominion, she will have command of unlimited natural resources, and of 450,000,000 of sturdy people. Then,” he says, "no longer can America pass an alien land law; no longer can America peaceably ’en‘force lthc Monroe Doctrine. The appeals of Japan will harden into demands, and it will take more than 4,000,000 American troops to meet the issue.” Here, then, we have the stone cold sum. mary of ‘the nwati-onal ambition of Japan, :a. goal that Japan has already under pursuit. That this Envoy had the. full truth drawn out by the applied methods of American extraction there is little doubt, and what are Western nations likely to do about it? American dealingwith the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations project seems to be playing on the side of Japan, a hastening of the time. when Japanese appeals will harden into demands It is well known that the little Brown Man 1S busy in India, and is no-t the British policy in that country also helping on the attainment of the Japanese goal‘? Cablcgrams from London and India have for decades kept the world well informed of the -alarming growth of scdit'ion and general unrest in India; a. hatred of Britain is being spread by some influence that is not yet en'tircly.apparcnt; but India has also ‘ambitions which it will be doubly dangerous for Britain to continue her methods of crushing. If Japanese dominion should have sway in India it is not possibTE to see how it could he stayed from spreading over "the Occidcnt. By a Russo-Japanese agreement each of the parties undertook to maintain and respect the status quo in Manchuria, but one of the parties is no longer at power to prevent Japan abusing the "agreement in mind and fact_ If only the Press of the Western World ¢,w~ould .-recognise its hncnest, imperative. dlii‘y to educate the masses of the people as to the real and true state fiof international politicis; if secret diplomacy was banned in all international affairs; if the preservation of the race and not the greed of the individual were made the first consideration; if a*l.eague of Nations for effectually policing the world were promptly establislied, Japan would find a strong cause for revising her iambitious programme, as proclaimed by Dr. Chung. While America is openly threat~ (mod, it is not understandable that American people should go on increasing their trade with Japan. In ten years prior fitlo» the war imports to Japan from America increased by 1400 per cent, being chiefly iron, steel, and machinery. German exports increased by 300 per cent, and British exports by 116 per cent. Japan put a rather heavy tariff imposition on British goods a year or so before war was declared; these new duties were mainly on cotton and woollen goods, Japan now posscssvs some of the largest and best. equipped cotton and woollen mills in the world, yet, in spite of this fact, Brimin discoumgiug the growth of the ccfiggn industry in India. VVC have room only to state that the statement made by Dr. Chung on being refused a passport to cross America provides material for the most serious thought of all Western peoples, «and for those in Dominions which have sprung therefrom.