A PROTEST

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 4

A PROTEST

TO Ttt'E EDITOR or THIS PRESS. Sir, —At last Japan has found a friend who informs the people or New Zealand the causes of Japans unofficial" campaign of murder against China. Her friend, who is a Jesuit priest. Dr. Ross, arrived in Auckland to attend the Roman Catholic Centenary. On February-27, Dr. Ross said: “The war was one of the effects of Japan’s root problems of over-popula-tion: success would ensure a continuance of raw materials and the marketing of Japanese manufactures.” Dr. Ross has conveniently forgotten the fact that thousands of innocent men, women, and children have been blown to pieces by Japanese aeroplanes. Ke has forgotten that all over the globe millions of people who sympathise with the Chinese people, know that China is the victim of a murderous assault, a murderous assault that will be handed down to posterity as one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the East. But listen to this. Any patriotic member of the British Empire, who believes in a White Australia might disagree with the following words of Dr. Ross. “Japan would have to find a sub-tropfical climate: where it would be I do not know, but there are thousands of uncultivated acres in Australia.” Dr. Ross, who is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hiroshima, Japan, should tell us of his work in reforming Japan. She needs it. According to Professor O’Conroy’s book. “Menace of Japan,” there are in Japan more than 4,000,000 young girls under 15 years of age, who are being trained as licensed prostitutes. —Yours, etc., TRUTH. March 5. 1938.