Dissipating the Yellow Peril.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

Dissipating the Yellow Peril.

Destitk (heir successful intervention in t'tn war as an ally of ours, .the .?apiinc>sc are looked at askance by Australians, who cannot lose the dread that the Northern Territory is earmarked for further occupation by

the'little bix>wn men. Now comes a suggestion made in I he London Morning Pn: t- wh.ic'i, il adopted, w.iiild relieve tb« minds of Australia; whilst it would lift some gloom from' statesmen and probably reduce future naval and military expenditure by fully 50 per cent. The writer in thy Morning Post , suggests that German East AlTica should be annexed by Japan, with Britain's co-operation and goodwill. It is eminently suitable for Japanese settlement upon tbe amplest scale, and covers 281,000 square miles a dominion far larger than Jsi pan itself. Tho conntry< as a whole, would be perfectly .adapted to systematic occupation and cultivation by Japanese settlers. Provided Britain secures a sufficient strip to connect her territories, north and south (with guaranteed fight over the railway to the coast), it may be presumed that none of tho European Allies desires to increase its responsibilities within the African tropics. The concentration of Japanese emigration upon the reclamation and settlement of Japanese territory- raises no labour diih'culties within our Empire. On the contrary, "labouring- with their own hands" in their own fields under a tropical sun which saps the vitality of British blood, Japanese settlers would supply a much-needed element of progress in Central Africa. They would introduce higher standards of efficiency in the-cultivation of food and sub-tropi-cal produce, and, doubtless, create local manufactures. -They would in due course, supply trallic for the British railway system, and reduce the cost of living and production in neighbouring British territories where- land settlement and industry were restricted and hampered by dependence upon imported short-term contract-labour and imported necessaries of every kind.