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Evening Star, Issue 16992, 14 March 1919, Page 6

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HIVE OF INDUSTRY. PEACEFUL PENETRATION POLICY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, March 14. (Received March 14, at 11.10 a,m.) Tho Rev. Mr Bazeley, general secretary of tho Church Missionary Society, has returned after a six months’ visit to the East. He .sounds a note of warning regarding Japanese trade and other developments. Japan, he says, is making amazing strides, and occupies a position of dominating influence, commercially and politically, ini the East. The whole country ia a hive of industry. Factories are going up everywhere, and there is hardly an article of commerce which the Japanese are not now making. She ia seeking new openings for trade the world over. The commercial penetration of China and India by Japanese manufacturers is something to marvel at. She is capturing markets wholesale. Australasia is destined to know much more of Japan before many years elapse. Mr Bazeley found a great deal of unrest everywhere in tho Bast against Australia’s exclusion policy. Ho predicts tlvafc it will soon bo necessary to modify this policy in certain directions.