The Star. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1908. THE COMING STRUGGLE IN THE EAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 4

The Star.

MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1908. THE COMING STRUGGLE IN THE EAST.

Dallrarad avery, aTenlag 0y.6 o-olotj*. in UAtrer Minitt, Mo^msnbj, Ok«Uws, i lthkin, M^ng* to*!, Kajjonfcs, A«fttuu», Opnu.iks, Ot»keiio Jtanulirii, Alton, Harleyvillo, I'i.tes., M d ,W*veileT.

Oligarchic Japan repyeeonte the new problem in Eastern Asia. So says Mr Putmaa Weale in his new book "".The diftiing Struggle in Eastern, .Asia." Mr" Woele is one of those who regard the' Anglo- Japanese Alliance, .^as "a political err«r of tl.e first magnitude!," and r that the "economic situation which now obtains in, ibei Far East is sufficaeaii ly 1 serious to justify the plainest Breaking." He.^ays tiia-b Germany and r jK.Ußsia, the only'two othw Powers in the "wt-rld, aparf frdm'tihe IJnitoi Statda, who "now have re«d first-dasa importance, are manifestly marking time in Eastern v Aiia, amid waiting for the' iiero r outlines and' the nevv tendencies to' manifest r ; themselves. They coquet with' Japan because of their distrust of t'ach other j but the. pause is ominous ' "rKerooan be no real seovxity," lie, contends, "until China is in a very diffeirent position from that which she now occupies, and until Japan falls into the place which, hear history, her population, and her genius prove that she can, v-ith justaco, occupy. . . . Under these circumst&ni'o* the preition of England must bo d cieaned. , one of exceptional embarrassment, Relying no longer on her prestige and on her naval strength i» the Far Efl&t, but rather on papetr and on promises, she busies herself with su?h questions as the abolition of' opiuiu in. Ghana, at a time > when tihore is other "veiry urgent business on /hfjid. TJie jinatter. of the enforcement ol 'the ne.w. Commercial Treaties with China,, far in^taiice, which, is of ihe , very' nig^eet, importance, "and wh?ch would allcw the beginning of great ainci valuable recpnstruotuve work, is ig norw— -fc-<r what reason it is hard to jappa^eihend. Believing that in iht< 'Anglo-Japanese Alliance instrumen/t of iLiigyst; , } 905, a* soveoredgn remedy emJsts f 'for €A:ery Far Eastern ill, the 1 directors of the foreign policy of Great Britain would . doubtless be surprised to l«arn that in the Far Eafit itself no mare impcTtanc© is now attached to ihat agreement than, say, to the Triple Alliance in Europe, which has been co fax fc(rgotteoi in Italy that Prince yon Bulow recently found it necessary to remind the Quirinal Government of its continued existence." An interestiuT pcinti and .vital- to- (her relationship betwtea the w.hite and brown people, is that .pC race antipathy. In d'scussiu^ \% Mr- Wc«le says it may fairly be «ti,d ,lhat just a* in India— from whoh fiel«l .Mr Mendith Townsend mainly gatiu.ved his materials — go JiT a somewJuit lesser degi^ee there is, and must -b>s aihoner tiijet Mqngftlian rncee the smmo instiiwtive antipathy for the wbitf*stiynfQd n-an as the latter on his pr^cl feels for His brown- Bkii.ned. ,br 'yfUo^?Bkinn©d'li.rethrfai How far tliisl.nnUpathy is really a p^lii^oal fpjee (sa*ni)Qt a» y&b be properly tstamated, .either m .tKo "^ost 9-r.' thn East.; but just as the AmerjTciins cf the lacific Cnaat insist on the eocclusicn of all Asiatics, be th« y Chinese cr Ecreant; or H waiese. f.c wilL the Jfij.-jiiit ft." above ail olLtr pet plea of MrL^yliau race, c vclui< 1 the wli'ito m»ui fji:ii« f.tjrticipaiing in theixploitaton » f U* wealth nl Ea»!fin Asit\ Aflei s\ibn u t ng, a uitise •) «?v'»l^inoa the author c'Cikees the fact Mitt a corrective! is neuded. He says: — "Just us in 1002 the first Ana-l.^lnpuL*-ese Alliance supplied a corrective to an unforthinatci political impasse*, which had beeyi^ twroughi about by British indiifftrencw'to^tihJe^ foend of affairs in the Far.East^.so ir.;1907 isa fiirther corrective r required, if a/soeorid impasse islnot ultimately to be reaohtd. For whilethe Anglo>Japan©se Alliance ia at present a giiarajnteeior peace, it is alßoV"a gu'fi'ranbeci . for '. a commercial d all' is^^R^(B^|eigqarduiJs.. etci^ airei t^klgpi wjthoutJosß^ time.'* The iposi-, ti^'aa^t.&ta^ds^tridtlee wth diffioulti^ «j ;(fuil -JSt contradiction*, aaad, is cftnpoaod oiiall tiie ele-m^nte of W sanP gummy sfei*u^gl©. Mace uiscpicjt »ug-. gfeftt^w^otS^'e Aflglo-Japane^o, allW.

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