DANGER AHEAD

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 July 1925, Page 5

DANGER AHEAD

PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC.

AIENACE OF JAPAN. AN OUTSPOKEN CLERGYMAN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT, NEW YORK, Jay 21. “The money-mad people of the United States to-day are sitting out the edge of a volcano and do not know it. Witnin the next three or four years trouble will develop in the Pacific between the United States and Japan, and what the end will be cannot be foreseen. The centre of gravity of the world is moving to the Pacific, and there the problem of the wor.’/d will be faced in- the future. The sooner we of the British Empire recognise it the better for ourselves and the rest of the world.”

These and other equally startling statements were made by the Rev. Here Bryant, archdeacon of Monara, who wii sail on July 22 for a tour of Britain which is expected to last three months. He will espouse the cause of emigration from Britain to Australia, and expects to address- meetings -while in England. He said: “Japan is aggressive how and wii l 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,” he added. “We realise that Japan could pour two or three million Highly trained soldiers into Australia before we could get assistance from the nearest British units. That is one reason why we display such interest in the question of aid to the Imperial Navy, and why we have provided some vessels of our own to assist in our defence.”

“I have beem particularly astonished <*nd amazed at the laxity of the United States in connection with the Paeifio oroblem,’’ he added. “There are 135,000 Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands, almost as many Chinese and many Koreans and Pilipinos, who would doubtlessly side "with Japan jin. the event of difficulty. There should be close intercommunication between the different parts of the Empire, and bonds should he strengthened by every means possible. There is heavy work ahead. Japan believes she has a grudge in that she has been insulted through the American immigration -restrictions. Some- day there will be a war of .revenge ind it is amazing tome that the peop’e of the United States do not realise this.”