PACIFIC PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1921, Page 5

PACIFIC PEACE.

JAPAN NOT WARLIKE. - ALOOFNESS OF ENGLAND. HER POSITION IF WAR CAME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Jan. 14, 7.10 p.m. New York, Jan. 13. The New York Evening Post’s Paris correspondent has received from Baron Ishii a copy qf the 1911 Anglo-Japanese alliance. Discussing article four, absolving either England or Japan from declaring war in support of each other against a third party with which either has an arbitration treaty, the correspondent points out that America would be amply protected if she would ratify the arbitration treaty which President Taft negotiated with Britain, but which the Republican Senate did not ratify. Baron Ishii stated that Japan, in 1911, realising that an alliance with England might be embarrassing in view of AngloAmerican* negotiations, herself suggested article four, thus voluntarily depriving herself of Britain’s support in the event of hostilities between Japan and America. Baron Ishii added that Japan no more thinks of war' with the United States to-day than in 1911. “If we were to make a treaty now, Japan would again suggest the inclusion of article four,” he added.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.