THE UBIQUITOUS JAP

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 314, 2 July 1912, Page 5

THE ÜBIQUITOUS JAP

DOES HE THREATEN AUSTRALIA? By Cable—Pre*s Association—Copyright. London, June "0. Mr. Hogie, of Sydney, in an |rfiele in the Nineteenth Century, deals''-with the growing Japanese power, and says that the Japanesation of China will eventually make Japan mistress of the East. He emphasises Australia's vulnerability, and adds that any Power holding "Australia holds the key to South Africa. He instances the recent Japanese Antarctic expedition, which he decribes as merely part of a design to spy out Pacific territory. The Australian opinion was that in the event of an Anglo-German war Japan would take decisive action in the South Pacific. The keeping of Australia concerned not merely Britain, but aho the United 'States and European Powers, and this consideration alone ought to keep Germany from quarrelling with Britain or Britain from thwarting Germany's expansion in Africa.