JAPAN AND CHINA
ORIGIN OF CONFLICT
The statement that New Zealanders should make themselves "Pacific conscious" and should acquaint themselves with all matters concerning the Pacific was made by Professor H. lielshaw when addressing a luncheon of the League of Nations I'nion yesterday. Professor lielshaw said New Zealanders wore interested in affairs in Kurope, but they did not know as much about matters in the Pacfic as interested groups in Great Britain or the I'liiled States.
Stating that Japan forced the war with China, Professor lielshaw said the main reasons were Japan's rapidly-in-creasing population and the necessity for gaining raw materials of which Japan was short. Japan was self-suf-ficient as far as food was concerned, hut she needed raw materials in order to continue her programme of industrialisation.
In answer to the question what would he the effect of a Japanese victory over China, Professor lielshaw said the Japanese new order would prove most uncomfortable for the Chinese, and, to a lesser extent, for the people in the West, and ultimately even for the Japanese.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23996, 20 June 1941, Page 9
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