POSITION IN PACIFIC

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 166, 16 July 1920, Page 7

POSITION IN PACIFIC

[WORLD'S CENTRE OF GRAVITY

[Press Association.]

! ADELAIDE, July, W* Speaking at a Govwnment luncheon to the overseas pressmen, iMr B. Long, representative of The TTimes, said that' from what he had seen he was convinced that the -world's centre of gravity was shifting tfrom the Atlantic to the Facincv Around the Pacific great contests in future must centre. Australia and iNfiw Zealand in the Pacific would occupy the same position as the IJnitea Kingdom did in the Atlantic. "The people of Britain had ,no proper •understanding of the position in the •Pacific. The Times had some vision of what the future would be, and the management had sent him out to .find *mfc and tell them.