THE JAPANESE QUESTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5

THE JAPANESE QUESTION.

LORD NORTKCLIFF-'E'S VIEWS

POSITION IN THE PACIFIC.

LONDON, May 18.

Lord Northcliffo at a luncheon given 10 him by the Australian and Now Zealand Club at ihe Hotel Cecil made some interesting references to tho Japanese question. After an allusion to the fact that Australia had no arsenals, he added; "Our little brown friends are getting nearer and nearer Australia. Any person who goes to Japan and realises the true position of the remarkuble growth of population will understand that Australia, which practically is empty, is in very great danger. The Australians tell me 'we keep them out.' Australian keeps them out. because she has the protection of the British fleet. Can the Americans and the Canadians keep ihem out ?" Lord Northclili'e thundered: "No! British Columbia and Honolulu are alive with Japanese." He said he regarded the Japanese as tho Germans of the East, with a propaganda of spying and emigration all over the world. "They have, covetous eyes on the Commonwealth 'and the Dominions," he said. Lord Norllicliffe criticised the immigration scheme, saying: "It is easy to put a. man in a ship at Tilbury and land him at Perth, Sydney or Melbourne, 'anywhere except Northern Queensland/ but there are no preparations to receive him when he arrives such as in Canada, where the Canadian-Pacific Railway has'made wonderful preparations reception, hence the number of people who retuim'i from Australia. There is an alarming number returning, and this should be stopped. Everyone who returns to his native village in England is the worst advertisement .Australia can have."—A. and N.Z. cable.