JAPAN'S HELP IN THE WAR
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—General W. H. Grey seems to overlook the fact that Japan had an old score to pay off against Germany and that the War afforded her a very favourable occasion for doing so. Her services, considerable as they were, were amply repaid by her territorial gains. In another direction; Japan seized the opportunity of the War to take steps which were certainly not dictated by any regard to her Ally's interests—the notorious twenty-one demands upon China.
Why the Japanese should consider themselves, " without Singapore, the natural protectors of our Eastern posses- sions," I am unable to conceive. The chief reason for Singapore is Australia, and the exclusion of the Japanese from the Dominion is regarded by them—not entirely without excuse—as an insult as well as an injury.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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