RAIDS BY JAPANESE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 9

RAIDS BY JAPANESE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS ffids^ad^hl 6 regardi ?g certain late cS a whkh° n - t^ e No rt hj° r QuSsS Tokyo by a press^cXe^ondent 6 £°g JaLT^ 8 * 0 mditoy leaders in R l an , about the decadence of the ?ance hj TiWat^ 3 ® ? n added signi Arhls statement was to the effect SfdoSV.Th «me these raiders had been in the habit of imri. mg on this coast and carrying off sheen seUl irTIZ a "^° ther oS treating whe ? remonstrated with. derision th ff people . w ith laughter and uension. it was also said that th<* itlS G who a h a C d° mplai 5 ed to the autborthf PaSS6d ° n the matter to ine federal Government officials whn to % eir r tUrn . had referred ttue matter rdv l Imperia l Government. The reft? wa?to e Z ed / r ° m this authorshouTd M efTec t that “great care snould be taken not to offend the r a S e w' PUr A fa ithful allies in the Great War. And here apparently to ? uot ® th o article referred to, the matt Pot th far an £ acti °n taken to protect the settlers from these raiders or jlnanl°sp Se rn an offi cial protest to ’the nftely Government, rested indefl-

seem s almost incredible, weak as domh^ nal #° r .f ign polic y> under the domination of pacifists,” has for so should* +£ hat . these P ira tical acts should be thus ignored. And if the tha?Th e rV S correct ' can you wonder the , Japane se militarists are already planning the invasion and division of our Empire? •'L wa * diking the matter over lately with a friend, who is in no sense he expressed the opinion tnat the best way to remove all possible excuse from Japanese militarists, was to take the Christian attitude of heating them as brothers, and asking them to come over and settle in any part desired and as soon as they wished. This is, of course, the view taken by pacifists generally, including the Bishop of Exeter and Mr George Lansbury as their main exponents. But how, «I would ask, would the plan work out. If a nation, alien to us in religion, ideals, language, and everything were to settle down among us how long would it be before internal warfare would break out? Could you conceive that the amalgamation of two totally different races as the Anglobaxon and Japanese could ever take place, or that if such an improbable thing happened, it would be for the benefit of either? practice would it not work out that as soon as the alien race felt itself strong enough, we should get notice to Quit: or it allowed the privilege of remaining, should he subjected to humiliations and offences such as have been inflicted by their conquerors on the unfortunate Koreans or the people of Manchuria since Japanese domination?

I fancy that if the most rabid pacifist, who is now avowing his determination of non-resistance and of refusal to fight for King and country, even in the case of an alien invasion, could only visit these countries where the Japanese are rulers, he would quickly change his opinions. That is, unless he is so far obsessed that he is prepared to hand over his wife and property when required, as the Korean has been compelled to, and to be shot if he resisted.—Yours, ’etc., A. H. GIBSON. Ngaio, January 16, 1936.