JAPAN AND CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 20317, 28 October 1929, Page 9

JAPAN AND CHINA

AH AMERICAN'S IMPRESSIONS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, October 26. “ Japan’s naval and military propa rations astound tho Western world,’ said Colonel Frederick Palmer, the noted American war carrespondcnt, on returning Iron a tour of _ Japan. Korda, Manchuria, and the Philippines. “ An amazing change to mo from a former visit,” he said “ was the growth of Japan’s industrial and military power. Her naval programme in the face of all the talk to the contrary makes her plan of defence a real offensive in distant waters. She could tako tho Philippines in a fortnight. Such is her present cruiser strength that she could sweep tho American flag off the Pacific by commerce-destroying raids, and the British might suffer tho same fato if Britain should have her naval movements through tho Mediterranean interrupted.’' Colonel Palmer thinks it will be a long time before China becomes a republic in anything but name. <! All the Chinese having now heard the Gospel, is it not a ’fair question to consider withdrawing the missionaries ” adds Colonel Palmer, who advises that a commission of business men should investigate the actual results of the mission funds spent in the Orient.