WAR NOT WANTED

Northern Advocate, 19 August 1933, Page 9

WAR NOT WANTED

JAPAN'S ASSURANCE

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA. ...r A POLICY OF PEACE. " MINISTER DENTES RUMOUR. ' (United Press Association.— By ' Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received: 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 18. Dr. Inazo Nitobe, chairman, of the Japanese delegation to the Conference of the Institute of Pacific- Relations,, now 'sitting at Banff, Alberta, made a statement this evening regarding a report that Japan and Russia are preparing for war. He said; “I never made such a statement. I talk peace, not war,” Professor Yasaka Takakai and Mr Ynsnki Taurumi, members/of the delegation, stated explicitly that Japan is not preparing ■ for war, and had,,no intention of preparing for it. Neither Dr. Nitobe nor they had any knowledge of what Russia was planning..-! “Japan’s policy is definitely one rf. peace,” said Professor Takakai. . JAPAN’S GREAT PROBLEM. POPULATION'S HUGH MORE TERRITORY ESSENTIAL^

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(Received 10.30 a.m.)

BANFF (Alberta), August I8 V ;§

Japan's population problems :UanuSi be solved by a decrease in the rate or by birth control,£according ,t(£ information presented tdday .to tne'lnv. statute of Pacific Relations in a, paper/ by Professor Teijero Uyeda, of Tokio University of Commerce.

Dr. Uyeda declared that .the groups constituting the working population will expand rapidly during the next 20 years. The number of the working population in 1950 would '■.' be "larger . than that of 1930 by ten million; ditional employment must be provided:: for at least half the number of'this increase, or 200,000 persons every" year. '■'■< ';•_ '"''■ "'., "■"•?y\ "The gravity of the : problem ; facin,g; Japan and the world after the'next twenty years can hardly be mated," said the professor, '- J *4si& social \lnrest which has come°to play' '• siieh art important role -in mainly due to this disparity between .-' population and gainful employment.'' The exports of_ Japan's textile industry are increasing rapidly at the expense of. Britain, -according to a paper presented by the British delegation representing the Royal : Institute of International Affairs..: It estate ed that Japan at this stage ,was;' lin6feinterested in securing a firm holfl'-of ' new markets than of the market-she controls at present. .'. :.'..'•"„' ....:;■ Hissj' '-J.%. In Lancashire, '■■■ oh ; the'' other hand," the manufacturers' attitude to' tias& is inseparable from .-considerations of costs and..pxofits.. Also,.,the.Japanese Government is more willing to "give aid to the textile industry because of its importance in. Japan's international balance of trade, it was contended. A