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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19086, 23 August 1927, Page 13

Speaking at a luncheon given to him by the Wellington branch of the Institute of Pacific Relations, _ Professor Blakeslee, of Clarke University United States, said that the Chinese situation was perplexing enough, but it was a fair prophesy to make that it would be eventually solved by the creation of a. nationalistic, reasonably strong Chinese Government, so that foreigners in China in future would have the same status as foreigners in Japan. in® Manchurian problem was, however, a most acute one; that country was 0116 of the most dangerous places m tne world from the point of view of war. It was a tremendously wealthy country, and China, Russia, and Japan naa economic aims and political ambitions there "which conflicted in "V» like a head-on collision. "We hope, he said, "that the problems may; be settled peaceably, but Manchuria is one of the danger points in the world