JAPAN ANGRY

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 8

JAPAN ANGRY

1 IAN HAMILTON'S SPEECH. DISTURBER OF THE. PEACE. (Per Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, May 18. General- Sir lan Hamilton's remarks at Wellingrton recently have caused a storm in the Japanese press. : The :Tokio newspapers say that Japan must prepare- jo stand alone and. face the white races m battile, while Asia must co-operate with Japan for the common defence. The "Nichi-Nichi," an influential ;jou-rnail, complains that Sir" lan Ham llton is a disturber of the peace. In .a speech at Auckland on May 13, Sir lan "Hamilton said that in the Pacific great nations had- risen during the last hundred -years, and other nations were showing" marvellous energy. The Pacific, despite its charmingname, was even more stormy than, spine less distiniuished parts of the globe. It was conceivable that in tbe; future there - would be greater and more terrigle convulsions than in the past. The Pacific was the' meeting ground, not of nations, but of continents, and here it might be decidedwhether Asiatics or Europeans were going- to guide the destinies of this planet. These were obvious reasons, but there were cithers no less read,' more or less under: the surface. In the Malay States fine people' were going- down before the influx of coolies, broug-ht to work for low wages. China showed signs "of -breaking- up These were but illustrations of a change out of which was evolving 1 chaos -and weltering- confusion such as existed at the time of the French Revolution. In our own Empire" were signs of danger , of invasion by f oreigriersl who, mon)o- ' polising business, lived on rice. The ' point or his story was that New Zealand and Australiaj in a time of progress- and prosperity, muse not lose sight of the -necessity for preparing tor war.