JAPANESE INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 9

JAPANESE INTEREST

WORK OF DEVELOPMENT

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(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright-)

(Received January 2, 8 a.m.)

TOKIO, January I

The. "Nichi .Nichi. i Shimburi,^ which is publishing a series of articles of Japanese commercial enterprises in Dutch New Guinea, says that not only is Holland's claim to New Guinea vague and doubtful, but also the administration proves its aloofness by making it a sub-State of a sub-State in- contrast to Australian New Guinea, which has an Administrator who directs it personally.

Holland, says the paper, has too much land. Even the development of Sumatra is just beginning, but Dutch New Guinea would be easy for Japan to develop, because Palao Island is only 500 nautical miles away. Both Japan and Holland would mutually profit by such an arrangement, and Holland should be willing to turn over the task of development to Japan instead of squeezing the poor natives.