WAR WITH JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 54, 22 February 1908, Page 2

WAR WITH JAPAN.

'-NOT Tilt GHOST 01-' A CHANGE.' THE ANGLO-JAI'AXESE TUKAII. Ml!. WHITKLAvTVkiD'S DEOI.AUA-l TiON. 5 -New York, February 21. ' Received 21st, lu.aU p.m. the Pilgrim's Club bampjeUed Mr, Whitelaw Keid, the American Ambassador to England, at New York on th c eve of Iris returning to London. Mr. Keid ridiculed the sensational press nonsense about Britain's obligations to sustain Japan in a war against the United Stales. Firsllv, there was

not the ghost of a probability of any war with Japan. .Secondly, the Anglti.lapane.se treaty simply provided that in the event of any aggression on Jap-, an's recognised territorial rights in the Hast, Britain would sustain her. Only j n lunatic could believe the United States would cross the Paeilic to try to rob one of her oldest and Iruest friends.

Sir. Keid referred to the procession of warships peacefully hearing the. American Hag around the western hemisphere, recalling to America its commanding position, not merely in the Atlantic, hut in Ihe Pacific Ocean, which, hj„ declared, is to carry the commerce of the 20lli century.