THE JAPANESE INVASION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 231, 27 September 1916, Page 9

THE JAPANESE INVASION.

FIRST DIRECT STEAMER TO NEW ZEAhAiW. (From Oar Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The arrival"of the big Japanese cargo steamer Akita Maru in Wellington has created a great deal of local interest, and yesterday afternoon the decks of the Eastern trader were crowded for several hours with visitors anxious to make her acquaintance and the acquaintance of her crew at close quarters. The features about the vessel that particularly struck the critics were her remarkably graceful lines, in striking contrast to those of the average British tramp, and her scrupulous cleanliness from stem to stern. Her crew, from Captain Tanaka—who, by the wiSy, is a Japanese, not a Maori as his name might suggest—down to the smallest boy on board seemed delighted to see their visitors, and gave everyone who cared to mount the gangway the free run of the ship. In this respect there is no occasion to make Invidious comparisons between British sailors and Japanese sailors, as hospitality is characteristic of the- seafarer under every Hag, but the Japanese have realised in a special degree the value of advertising, and with them to'realise a good thing is .to make it as.effect'iye as possible. Captain Tanaka 'himself, besides being an able eotrfmandc*ryis a very tactful diplomat, a well-informed' trade commissioner, and a seductive "tourist agent all relied into one, with an intelligent recognition of the possibilities of close commercial intercourse between his beloved Nippon and this distant part of the British Empire. The Japanese invasion has made another step in its 'peaceful penetration under very auspicious circumstances.

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