THE YELLOW PERIL AND GERMAN MENACE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 17

THE YELLOW PERIL AND GERMAN MENACE.

Sir, —It is rumoured that an important official message has been received from TokiOj and since confirmed from Hongkong, that Sir Joseph Ward, Baronet, acting tinder advice from MajorGeneral Gociley, has persuaded the Japanese and Chinese Governments to postpone the invasion of Australia and New Zealand until such time as the compulsory military schemes are in better working- order, and a sufficient number of children—boys and youths— are trained in the "arts" pertaining to war. In possible explanation, it is surmised that an outbreak of hostilities, arranged for the present time, would be extremely injudicious, ias the satoeY parties chiefly interested in the arming and training of the New Zealandors and Australians are closely associated with the arming and training of the Asiatics.

For somewhat similar reasons it Ivas been arranged to postpone the German invasion, pending the completion of theNew Zealand Dreadnought, and of a lar ■•• i!umber of other contracts let to C4e I.in and English shipbuilders and ore nice manuacturers.

r i ; institute methods tending to peac . in place- of present profit-ma-king conct s, is deemed by many leading financ ,3, money lenders, and military instr rors, to be an exhibition of extreme folly.—l am, etc., X.Y.Z. ■.