THE ADVANCING EAST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 October 1926, Page 9

THE ADVANCING EAST.

JAPANESE RESEARCH SUCCESSES The national secretary of tfie Y.M.C.A., Sir Arthur Yapp, who returned to London from a world totir recently, has come .back tremendously impressed by the development of India and China, and especially Japan. “I was amazed,” said 'Sir Arthur to the Daily News, Vat the surprising rate at which things are moving in the Far East. It was an object lesson to see how up-to-date were great cities like Shanghai and Tokio. They are infinitely ahead of us in advanced electrical development. “But more gratifying to me than that was the intense thirst for education revealed by the young. In my addresses, which I made on an average four times a day, I had to call in the assistance of an interpreter on only two occasions. “My admiration for Japanese knowledge was endorsed by a brilliant medical man, who told me that Japan is better served and more successful in research work than Britain, America and Germany put together.” After his tour of the East, Sir Arthur visited Canada. “They are starving for emigrants of the right sort,” he said. “Their plea everywhere I went was ‘Send us men who are willing to work and not of the kind who want to teach us how to run Canada and stand by and see us do it. ’■ For men' of resource and with resources there are limitless opportunities. ’ ’