PACIFIC PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1920, Page 5

PACIFIC PEACE.

ANGUMAPANESE ALLIANCE. !» '..V AO6&AIIA .AND JAPAN. gjr J'tMS Aiul— Copyright. Received June 21, 555 pjn. . t London, June 21. The Tt&io -correspondent of the Daily £xpreu interviewed Count Kato regarding the Mnewil of the alliance. Count Kato said the Australians teemed to imagine it would open the floodgates of immigration. The alliance had existed lor twenty years, and Australia had absolutely no trouble, on that score. The correspondent said that, in view Of her war services, Australia's voice ifakut be hearit. ' Count Kato a»sw*red:'*'jHow could the Australian armies haviHought without the Japanese nayyf Australia was •onsulted at the last renewal of the Ellianif and fully approved of' it." He Eflmlft+d the alUaMe ndw served no • tpecige object. The! widespread desire fir it Vii based on the fear of isolation, lather tjittt of specific dahger. The renewal ims aft act of mutual prudence, Cur if the alliance was remwed, Britain and Japan would drift into cool An early decision, he Mid, was not attainable, but negotiations were profltedisg ia the friendliest manner. Japan thoroughly realised the necessity for Msuultlng the Imperial Conference and ifee League of Nations.—Am-N.Z. Cable mm. THE SHANTUNG QUESTION. JAPAN DESIRES A JUST SOLUTION. ; Received June 21, 7.45 p.m. Tokio, June 20. The Foreign Office has issued a stateWent regarding the Chino-Japanese negotiations on the Shantung question, as Mows: It is a source of the deepest regret that at a time when all the nations of file world are-making efforts towards the establishment of encoring peace, a question of importaoce to China and Japjn should remain unsettled. Japau stands unchanged in its sincere desire to titvmote a fair and jfest solution of the Huuiiung questiofl wit}| the least posAibl* delay, snd will pursue a fixed polled towards China."—Atis.-N.Z. Cable AMS. ' '