JAPAN.
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. JAPAN'S DESIRES Received Feb. 8, 7 40 p.m. London, Feb. 7. The Manchester Guardian is publishing the contents of the Russian Foreign Ofiice archive.-, and gives the text of despatches from Krupunsky, Ambassador at Tokio. Ivrupensky mentions a conversation he had with Baron Motono, Japanese Foreign Ministei, in February, 1(117, relative to China's proposed intervention in the war. Baron Motono pointed out that if was necessary to safeguard .Japanese interests at the peace conference, and secure the "Allies' support for Japanese aspirations in Shantung mid the Pacific Islands. Baron Motono said that Japun desired all the rights and privileges possessed by Germany in the Shantung province; also the acquisition of the Pacific islands north of the equator then occupied by Japan. He added that the recent Japan-ese-British relations just iiled the surmise that the Loudon Cabinet would not object Krupcnskv's despatch of March first stated that Japan desired the earliest possible nssurauce of Russia's support.,
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1918, Page 5
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