NO NEED FOR FEAR

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1930, Page 6

NO NEED FOR FEAR

"JAPAN- IS PLAYING THE GAME"

New Zealand need not have any fear of a militant, aggressive, and vindictive Japan descending upon it in order to provide an outlet for surplus population, declared Mr. F. Milner, headmaster of tho Waitaki High School, m ' an address to the Wellington Botary Club yesterday on somo impressions of his recent world tour. The Japanese, he said, were not a militant nation. They wore concerned with their power in the Far East, and wore not concerned with areas in Western- Australia or other parts of the Pacific Ocean. In the matter of remedying the position created by her surplus population, Japan had turned down emigration, and was finding in industrialism the solution of her problem. The Japanese were focussing their attontion upon Manchuria, in the Far East, where they were determined to have access. There were as many as one million Chinese going each year into Manchuria, where there was an almost unlimited area of fertile land. Since the Washington Treaty of 1921 Japan had observed her obligation from the international point of view. He was satisfied that New Zealand now recognised that the Singapore Base was not viewed any longer in the light of fear of Japan. The base was an insurance for the vast amount of commerce that passed through those waters, and also a stabilising centre. Japan was playing the game.