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RAPID GROWTH OF POPULATION. THE SPECTRE OF STARVATION. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, July 7. Count Michimasa, a member of the Japanese House of Peers, in addressing the University of Chicago, stated: “The population of Japan is increasing at the rate o£ about 690,000 a year, and in another 30 years there will be nothing left for us but to starve, unless those countries which have unlimited: areas of fertile lands grow rice and export it to Japan, ov the ‘open-door’ policy is declared throughout the world.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19527, 9 July 1925, Page 9
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