JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1919, Page 5

JAPAN.

) - JAPAN'S AMBITION •U.S. SENATOR. PEAKS WORLD DOMINATION. ATTITUDE TO CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, October 11. Senator Lodge, in a speech in the Senate, issued a warning that, unless a very superior navy is maintained in the Pacific, the United States might some day take the place of France in another great war to preserve civilisation. He urged that nothing be left undone to increase American naval strength. Japan intended to exploit China and make herself a Power that would threaten the safety of the world Japan was steeped in German ideas and meant to exploit China and build herself up until she became a Power formidable in the world. Mr Lloyd George declared that in Japan's promises to return Shantung to China she had never fixed a time and always intruded reservations upon economic rights. London, October 11. The Shanghai correspondent of The Times declares that the Allied Powers must intervene immediately and decisively if they do not wish" to see the Japanese militarist party wholly dominate China. A series of 50 loan agreements have been concluded in 48 months and have win Tiled Japanese to acquire a hold on "".inn to an extent" which is not dreamed of in Europe. Unanswerable proofs ,bf penetration are discovered in the Far East every day, while the militarists in Tokio, headed by the formidable Prince Yamagata, continue to sway the destinies of Japan in defiance of Uchidahara and other enlightened leaders. It is impossible to retain our former confidence or accept Japan's professions as a sincere representation of her real policy. The student movement in China is liable at any moment to get out of hand and to lead to riots, thus giving the Japanese faction an excuse for rushing in troops.—Times.