PACIFIC ISLANDS
NEW LINE OF STEAMERS JAPANESE KNOW NOTHING. (Received Last Night, 8 o'clock.) SYd'nEY, January 30 The Japanese Consulate professes to know nothing re ariotJier new line of steamers to the Pacific Islands. Mi' Cogswell, Deputy British Commissioner at the Gilbert Islands, who is at present in Sydney, says that there is no reason That he knows why Japan should run steamers. There is not sufficient trade to warrant it, and Japan could gain nothing by seeking to settle the islands, and any attempt to seize them would embroil her with Germany, Britain, and France. As Japanese activity on the islands cannot be directed towards trade or settlement, she.must have some other object. The only possible danger to Australia is that they might want to create secret depots for coaling stations, which would lie of great strategic importance in the event of an attack on Australia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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147PACIFIC ISLANDS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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