PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18463, 18 August 1925, Page 14

PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR CONDLIFFE. Before the "NV.E.A. economics class last night Profeßsor ■J. B. Condlift'o ] spoke for two hours on "Problems of I the Pacific" to a large attendance of members of tlie, class and their friends. A considerable portion of the matter dealt with consisted of extracts from addresses'given' before the Pan-Pacific Conference held recently at Honolulu, by the delegates from the different nations represented, • with comments thereon by the' speaker, who was. one of the delegates from New Zealand. The speeches of some of the Japanese and Chinese delegates were dealt with specially. From those by the Japanese delegates Professor Condliffe quoted opinions regarding the immigration laws of the United State's to the effect that the right, of'any nation to exclude 1 anv immigrants was not questioned, as . long as that nation did Jiot exclude the people of another nation on the ground that they were racially inferior. Professor Condliffe did not think that immigration restriction or exclusion laws were likely to cause conflict; a more probable cause was that arising out of the obstacles and hindrances placed in the way of the industrialisation of Japan and China. Mass migration, he asserted, had never solved the problem of the pressure of population on the means of subsistence. In the case of Japan, her population increased at the rate of 690,000 per annum; the total number of Japanese resident abroad after 70 years of migration, was 000,000. Japan expected to solve the problem bv following the example of Great Britain by developing industrially, so that in :» generation or two she would be able to support her people in a higher standard of comfort than was the ease at present. Japan was- largely dependent on China for raw material and also for a market for her produce. The Pacific problem of international concern was tho development of tho greatest economic market the world had ever scon—the of Chinese — when they become industrialised. China's problem was to attain stable government, and as long as she had no control of the Customs she was unable to do so. China's industrial problem was bound up in tfic qiie9tion of extraterritoriality, which she wished to have abolished. Although the Chinese were.opposed to Bolshevism, tho danger was that she rjight have to choose between foreign ' domination or Bolshevism. That was the view of a Christian leader in China, who was strongly opposed to Bolshevism*