AMERICA AND JAPAN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 17 March 1911, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By EJec- j trie Telegraph — Copyright.

A GERMAN VIEW.

JAPAN'S ADVANTAGE

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.)

BERLIN, March 16

Herr Reventlow, in a statement concerning the balance of power in the Pacific, upon which the events m Mexico exercise an indirect influence, declares that the Russian defeat assured the Japanese influence in the Far East. He recalls Admiral Dewey's remark at Portsmouth that America 'should have attacked Japan earlier. The tension over the Californian schools controversy lasted until a visit of the American fleet induced tranquility. Japan then commenced the modernising of her fleet, which was unprepared for war. An unsuccessful effort to. neutralise the Manchurian railway had led to the Russo-Japanese agreement, in which there were' probably secret clauses. Hence America's feverishness to fortify the Panama Canal. Japan required the supremacy of the Pacific to retain the Chinese markets against America. The creation of an American commercial base in the Philippines would counteract Japan's geographical advantages. This must also become a powerful naval base before the American fleet could excel that of Japan. There are 68,000 Japanese in Hawaii capable of bearing arms, and only a thousand American troop.". Tbip iustifies General Homer Lea's dictum that 'the Japanese could capture from within.

CAUSE OF RUMOURS

A JAPANESE EXPLANATION".

Received This Morning. 12.50 o'clpck

TOKIO, March 16

The rumours that Mexico is giving a naval base to Japan are attributed in Tokio to a steamship company's application for a coal depot.