JAPAN'S GROWTH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 2 July 1912, Page 5

JAPAN'S GROWTH

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By Electr"*, Telegraph — Copyright.)

WILL BE MISTRhSS OF THE EAST

EYES ON SOUTH PACIFIC.

(Received July 1, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, June 80

The Hon. J. A. -Hogue, of Sydney, ■in an article in the! Nineteenth Century, deals with the growth of Japanese power. The Japan: sation of China, he says, weII eventually mako Japan, mistress cf the East, • - Tibet writer emphasises Australia's vnlnti-aibilty, .and urdds: "Any Power flidkling Australasia 'holds the key of South Africa." Mr Hogue instances •the recisinit Japanese An)fca:rc>tie oxpeditien m merely part cf «/ design to spy out Pacific territory. The Australian, opinion, in the event of an AngloGerman war, is that Japan will take decisive action in, the South Pacific.

The Keeping oP Australia, the' article continiues, not imeirdy concerns Gire.aifc Britain, hut the United States nr.'i European) Powers. This -consideration alone ought to keep Germany ■from quarrelling wiitih Go-eat Britain, or Britain frcmi thwairtimg Germany's African exclusion.