PROBLEMS OF PACIFIC.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 August 1926, Page 5

PROBLEMS OF PACIFIC.

JAPANESE MIGRATION.

DANGEROUS QUESTION REMOVED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY R tGHT. LONDON, Aug. 25. “It will relieve a load of anxiety from the minds of statesmen of the United States, Australia and Canada,” says the Daily Telegraph, referring to the cabled statement from Tokio that Japan intends colonising Hokkaido and will cease sending- emigrants to Australia, Canada and other countries where they are not wanted. The Daily Telegraph proceeds:— “ Japan’s action promises to postpone to a more, distant and indefinite date the danger, of that- clash of civilised races in the Pacific which would involve East and West in a: titanic struggle for supremacy. The declaration, moreover, is a signal proof of the real greatness of the Power which makes it. The dangerous question of Japanese'" immigration will be removed from American and from the British Imperial complex of world polities. “The declaration will have a direct and immediate favourable bearing on the peace of the world. It means a definite recognition of the fact that the policy of exclusion insisted upon by the Western races is accepted, at any rate for the time being. Japan has behaved with great dignity in the 'face of the growing demand "for the exclusion of her nationals—a demand forced upon Governments for industrial and economic reasons, especially eeo-

nomic eomjiotition with men who want less to eat and are willing to work harder and. longer for less pay. “There is no voice against the doctrine of a ‘-White Australia.’ Public feeling in Canada and the United States Pacific Coast is no less strong, .vet from the Japanese viewpoint the problem of an outlet for her surplus population is crucial. Japan is fast becoming industrialised on the British pattern, andi must find outlets. She is preparing to develop her own possessions, but may have ideas also of extending existing settlements in the South Pacific. 3lexico, Brazil and elsewhere.

“The problem of the Pacific remains*, but by Japan’s declaration it is robbed of its most dangerous and explosive angles. ’ ’