The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-27
TOXIC NIPPON ON
WAR SITUATION

A recent issue of The Advertiser
contained a cabled reference to an ar.
ticle in the Toxic Nippon, quoting a
japanese vice.admiral on the probabli.
ity of war between Japan and America.
The following is the original article,
published in Vancouver, upon which
the cable to The Advertiser was based
An article in the Toxic Nippon,
brought over by the steamer Tamba
Maru, warns the people of Japan to
prepare for war with the United States.
The Nippon quotes an anonymous Japa.
nese vice.admiral as saying that
However regrettable the fact may be,
it is none the less incontrovertible that
the danger of a breach in the peace
between Japan and a western power
comes chiefly from the attitude of the
United States. In vain do statesmen
and enlightened public men on each
side preach the necessity and demon.
strate the reality of mutual friendship.
None the less, from time to time, and
with ever-growing iteration come from
the United States mutterlngs of hos
tility, which at any moment may de-
velop strength too great for official
control.
Japan must be prepared for that
contingency. She must ask herself
what objective this element of United
States citizens have in view when they
advocate the expenditure of enormous
sums on furnishing the Pacific with a
big fleet; of creating a powerful army
on the Pacific slope; on building a huge
coal depot and naval port in Hawaii,
and on terrifying the Philippines, Ha-
wall and Panama. Unwilling as Japan
may be to believe in any quarrel with
her old friends, it would be madness
for her 10 shut her eyes to facts which
stare her in the face"
Defects in Warships.
The japanese public was quite sur
prised when news was received from
England that the navy department
had ordered a 27,OOOton cruiser to-
steam % knots and mount twelve Ia
inch guns, and much comment was
made by japanese newspapers that this
was in contravention of the policy
announced of constructing all war YES
sells at home. The japanese naval de-
partment issued an official statement
that the order was given to British
yard that Japan might secure vessel
of the latest model for the construc'
ton at home of other Dreadnought
cruisers. Some of the japanese papers
consider the order to be an acknowl'
edgment of japanese inferiority In
warship construction. The Asahi says
it has known that japan was much be-
hind European countries, and the plac'
ing of the order for the new cruiser, as
well as her arms and equipment, in
England has exposed this fact. The
paper says the warships Tsukuba,
Ikoma. Satsuma, Aki and others, built
in Japan, have all defects when com
pared with those constructed in Eu'
rope.
The Jill shimpo publishes an article
urging further expansion Of the Jap !
anese navy, and reduction of the army |
The Jiih after recapitulating figures
showing the building programs OF the
powers, says that by 1917 the United
States, Germany, and France will each |
be able 20 assemble thirty battleships
and aTmored cruisers in the Pacific
against japan's nineteen. The Jill |
says the 8i0,000,0O0 TO DO voted for
naval increase ID not necessarily ade'
quate,
The AomMri Is authority for the re
porn THAI the government has decided
upon the reorganization " the army
eoHs According 10 tho new plan,
each corps aill consist of three III.
Visions having stan, Account aud law
departments Tho total expenditure
Involved h} Ihe change ~ estimated ai
about tano0lp. part ~ Whleh Nill be
taken from lhr appropriation fof raeh
division liY ihe neW IS stem the arnY
lt a. hf placed on "a fpll NaI footing
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