GLOOMY FOREBODINGS

Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 5

GLOOMY FOREBODINGS

ANOTHER WORLD WAR ARCHDEACON’S WARNINGS JAPAN THE AGGRESSOR Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright NEW YOR.lv, July 21. “ 'flic money-mad people of the United States to-day are sitting on the edge of a volcano, and they do not know it. Within the next three or four years trouble will develop in the Pacific between tho United States and Japan. What the end will be cannot ho foieseen. Tho centre of gravity of tho world is moving to _ the Pacific. 'I hero is tho problem which tho world will ho faced with in the future. The sooner wo of tho British Empire recognise it tho bettor for ourselves and the rest of the world.”

These and other equally startling statements were made by the Yen. Doro Bryant, Archdeacon of Monaro (Now South Wales), who will sail _to-morrow for n tour of Britain, which is expected to last for three months. Lie will espouse the cause of emigration from Britain to Australia, and ho expects to address meetings while in England. Archdeacon Bryant said: “Japan is aggressive now, and will grow more so. The Empire must realise that the problem of the world to-day is the problem of the pacific. That is how we look at it in Australia. We realise that Japan could pour 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 highly-trained soldiers into Australia before we could get assistance from the nearest British fleet units. That is one reason why we display such interest in the Imperial Navy, and why we have provided some vessels of onr own to assist in defence. I have been particularly astonished and amazed at the laxity of tho United States in connection with the Pacific problem. There are 1115,000 Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands, almost as many Chinese, and many Koreans and Filipinos, wuo would doubtless side with Japan in tho event of trouble. There should be close intercommunication between the different parts of the Empire, and the bonds should bo strengthened by every means possible. “There is heavy work ahead,” concluded the speaker. “Japan believes that she lias a grudge—that she has been insulted through the American immigration restrictions. Somo day there will come a war of revenge. It is amazing In me that the people of the United States do not realise this.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.