PROSTRATE EUROPE

Northern Advocate, 22 June 1925, Page 5

PROSTRATE EUROPE

ORIENTAL OPPORTUNITY f A GREAT AWAKENING: j I TWO YELLOW PERILS. { (Received 11.20 a.m.) ; LONDON, June 21. 5 Tlie "Sunday Pictorial," in an article explaining Chinese aspirations from the viewpoint of tlie present dia« turbances, says:— "Two yellow perils are ahead off white civilisation. The first is industrial and includes Japan, which is al-» ready under-selling Europeans in Eastern markets. When China takes tof industrialism in earliest she will underlive and under-sell to an extent even greater than Japan. "Secondly, the day js coming wheif China, as the possessor of great fleets and millions of aimed troops, will become a first-rank Power in the Pacific. "The question will then assume a different aspect, with possibly an affiance between Japan and China. Although Chinese hordes may not marehj on Europe an aerial invasion is possible, and it is certain that Chinese' naval squadrons will some day be seen in European waters. It is alstf tolerably certain that a united, strong China will some day seize the empty, prolific Northern Territory of Australia. "Japan is at present the Australians' bogey. They are looking in the wrong direction. The Japanese belong to the temperate zone and could not thrive in the Northern Territory. The i Chinese cor.ld thrive equally in th-e I'Northom Territory and at the North | Pole.

"Europe's prestige has suffered terribly as a result of the Great War. Orientals were amazed at four and a half years of gigantic devastation and senseless mutual destruction. Nowadays even the nerveless Peltin Government sends impertinent messages to European Legations, because the Chir nese know that Europe is prostrate and unwilling to engage in hostilities anywhere.''—Sun. •.