THE LITTLE BROWN MAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 264, 17 March 1911, Page 5

THE LITTLE BROWN MAN

DOES HE DOMINATE THE PACIFIC? FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Ry Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received. 10, 10/20 p.m. ' London, March 10. ; The Morning Post states that Great Britain is dependent on Japan's tolerance in the Pacific. The anti-Japanese emigration policy of Anstralia, New Zealand, and Canada creates an antagonism which is quiescent owing to the AngloJapanese Alliance, but the position is full of explosive elements. The Empire must be prepared to maintain a onePower naval standard in the Pacific. It is evident that •Australia and 'Zealand are willing to assist, and it is apparent that the United States' interference in Mexico is an effort to secure her suzerainty in the Panama Canal There are rumors that there are being landed Japanese coolies in Mexico, nominally for industrial purposes, but they are really trained soldiers, similar to the Japanese at Hawaii. GERMAN STATEMENT OF THE CASE. AMERICA SHOULD HAVE ATTACKED JAPAN. Received 10, 1.30 a.m. Berlin, March 10. Admiral Reventlow.Jn a statement on the balance of power in the Pacific, whereon events in Mexico have an indirect influence, declares that the Russian defeat assured the Japanese influence in the Far East, and recalls Admiral Dewey's remark at Portsmouth that America ought to have attacked Japan earlier. The tension over the California)! schools controversy lasted until the visit of an American fleet induced tranquility. Japan was then modernising her fleet, and was unprepared for war. An unsuccessful effort to neutralise the Manchurian railway led to the Russo-Japanese agreement, wherein there were probably secret clauses; hence the American feverishness to fortify the Panama Canal. Japan requires supremacy in the Pacific to retain the Chinese markets against America. The creation of an American commercial base in the Philippines would counteract Japan's geographical advantages, and would also become a powerful naval base. Sixty-six thousand Japanese at Hawaii are capable of bearing arms, and only a thousand American troops, justifying General Homer Lea's dictum that the Japanese could capture Hawaii from within. A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION. Received 17, 12.5 a.m. / Tokio, March 10. The rumors, of Mexico giving a naval base to Japan are attributed to the Tokio Steamship Company's application f >r a coal depot.