FARTHEST JAPAN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 2

FARTHEST JAPAN.

THE PEOPLE PRO-BRITISH

DR BATCHELOR'S IMPRESS^

Ven. I) r Batchelor, ArclxU. Hokkaido, Japan, is paying \ Vti ,;"" i to New Zealand. H 0 has been u, *• in the Hokkaido, and lias be,.,, 3*» there among the Japanese nil JHi among the aboriginal people i,', j **« the Hairy Kinu, a gentle, kimi /•*»• intelligent- race of people the Japanese obtain main „i to » characteristics. hi ]*,t; "tl u ! y'* deacon, then a young ini,vin IlJn badly .smitteiv with fever in and from there he was 4 ,. m T, |> farthest part of Japan, and hj,. 1 n ,, ;t < concentrating all his misM t „,, tn ',/» upon the people there e\er s,m\- ' *' In course of conversation W!l |,', resentative of 'The Post' I)i< ]l„' ( made it quite clear nhat the ,]',„„!*' of the day is, and how he -1,,,,,;,! ,J*» garded by the New Zealamh-r .maY" tralian. He was asked about "t'l,,, j nese peril." "It does not i-mm." 1,,.'*" plied. "Tho Japanese are n«»t" am >( 2 to become a peril to any <>i ih,- ■,,,„. in these Southern lands." All in,.,7? and demand is to be tie,,! r <l '„,, ,: equality, treated as white in, n 'v' resent being regarded as .Menu,;'* They are not. They are, i,u>~,'i/ .Malay-Aryan people. " To spi ak ,',f"'-.' them as if they were Chinese to Chinese, or to confuse tln-u ~'*! Ls most ofFensne t<, They b'lterly resent an\ minim of this kind. The I'umd St.i;'.j'Jf have to give tin the Philipp m, ,' ri „ years' time, they say. h«,i„l,\ 'j; Japanese will have a look mi '1,,,; ,'' so long as the Japanese :,\, t r , ,'" as gentlemen they will belu\, ~,, '.,'.",* lneut, there need bp no !'■•.■ 1 «,:"•',,' The eeople of the Unite,! -m.i',', '•"* made the great mistake ol ;,n;j u:','C on a par with Chinese. 'Tin- \'." cause of ;.. lot, of trouble."

"Are the Japanese more ~.n i;, r ,., than pro-British at heart r" l>Hl ;i or was asked.

; "They are most uini-Cfriii.,!! in .„ ing 'ii many ways," he ivpiir,|, in thin war thev arc iii<it.mitiuiv v Hriti.sh. Thcv have estabk-liwl' iC navy «n tli,. Ilrilish mode!, t],,. !r ~„ and medicine on the (iVniiaii n,.,,|„;".t. their jurisprudence on i|„. y t '~i model; tliuir .science i- <'»i-m<,| i<l ; t ..' They are 1m no meant% . 1um,,,,,,','< ihe (ierniaii' and lii.s way,-. Tlky :'. been .-tautich Allies of Hrilaln ~ini •■'' remain ,s<>.

"Another characterihtie <,f i 1,,. ,),.,. nese Is their specialisation. }];','■. man knows his job. ]f he i- a |», t j r '. ho specialise- in Ixitany ami n.ijl'r else. They specialise on t.heir «,•';' whatever it may he, prof.-.-kiiim! « manual, and they stick to tlm; "?< they know it thoroughly. Thai k they have succeeded. * and why £-. lillisi, succeed. in commercial :unf ir,ii> •rial < ipelition, witll the n-t <>K world. They are doing ;,ll th,-i ,y but only in common with oilm-m,-tries, to capture the German iin.ihtrian export trade, and no ,!eul, ; H r will he successful in obtaining ud! ;. taming a large share of it. Tb W'here their i-neciali.sat ion will >:a them in such good stead." Dr Katchelor, after touring N.uZ, hind, -peaking and doing d'i.uuy work, will proceed to Australia amlth to F.nglatid. He is on II m-milK' lough. He came u, \ew Z.a.in.l: Japan direct, oni\ trans-hipping ;,!,. ney. He was accompanied ;i „ \ ; ,% Sydney hy Mrs Batcliehu.