YELLOW PERIL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 430, 12 February 1909, Page 5

YELLOW PERIL.

FEARS QUITE WIDE OF THE MARK. THE CHINESE LOVE PEACE. INTERVIEW WITH THE CONSUL FOR NEW ZEALAND. (ot lELROIHVII—I'IIES" ASSOCIATION—COrrnIOHT.) (Rec. February 11, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, February 11. .'/:Hwaug Yung ■ Liangi: Chinese. ■ Consul for New-Zealand,-.in tho course of an interviow, declared that' the "yellow peril" fears wovo amusing, .and quite wide of tho mark. Tho Chineso had not. tho least, idea of giving battle.-.. Tho love of peace was ingrained in theni, and they '.wished : to , .co-operato.. in movements best calculated ; to : advance the well-being of humanity as a whole. VIEWS OF SIR ROBERT'HART. , Sir.- Robert: Hart said. some Very interesting things,about ; tho future".of China at n dinner given to liim recently by the London Chamber of Commerce:— . . -;0-*--. - X.y--- : '"It was anybody to' think about the' future of China.- Ir thoy cohsjdered what a-country of,:4,000,000 .square, miles could pro- . diic6,:in:,;the way ,of food and materials, and' ; what a poople' : numbering i 00.'000.000, might do if 'they-turned their heads and arms in .'the right-'- direction, there was, certainly a ■ future for, that country." ; Another.: striking statement. made .by . Sir; Robert. was;- about the Chinese- love; of. peace.' .' /'The Chinese,":lve said,' "were .reasonable people, and had.an abhorrence :of.military life aniT.th'e: doings' of a mil'tary nation, but tliey' found it necessary:' to create .'an'ariiiy 'ahd a' navy in .order; to stand:on' their own feet, among the'other nations, and an army. and a riavy they would have'.before -long. - But it. would il>e some time before the Chinaman was' a real soldier.. At;present ,hau/not got-.the heart..for fightJng,-: hut his.:, army .would inerdase, - and in ono, two, ;or; three > centuries ; they, would: have ■ their fighting. raenV :. People' might laugh at China as a serious.military,'country, butin 6ome : hundreds :• of years she .might have : forty • or fifty, million', troops '.trained ( by'a combination 1 of tho territorial and.conscriptive' systems. Then he'.thought the ideas of peaco on earth .might come.out,-and that the; Chinese,.with' their love-: of! peace, and. with aV huge, army,- might say jto, other-countries:-Ton .-must',settle your disputes; in another .way; but there must ho po-fighHng,, - v ,That' was; one of the' things he looked forward-to as a possibility of the future. He believed tho present ;ruler\in'; China would 'carry oh the work of;progress; that there would£w- ext; en 6 ion. of. railr'rads and trade ,•: a con-stitution,;''and:Btrength-.enough, to stand against other people.. - -