PACIFIC PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1921, Page 5

PACIFIC PEACE.

AWGLO-JAPANESE TREATY INDIA MAY OPPOSE IT. ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, May 18. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune interviewed Mr. Bertram Simpson, the Chinese Government agent, who toured Canada opposing the renewal of the Anglo-Jap-anese Treaty.

Mr. Simpson declared: “I am much impressed with the conviction of United States Senators with whom I talked that it would be impossible for the Anglo-Japanese Treaty to be written so as to meet American objections. This is tremendously significant, in view of public utterings of Mr. Hughes, Premier of Australia, and Mr. Massey, Premier of New Zealand, that the treaty must be renewed in such a shape as to be satisfactory to the United States.” Mr. Simpson said that Senators M‘Cormack, Lodge, Borah, and Johnson concurred in this view.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received May 19, 11.30 p.m. .London, May 19. It is learned on excellent authority that the Indian Government is secretly throwing / its influence in the scale against a renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, in view of the extraordinary development of Japanese trade in India ousting Indians.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.