MENACE OF JAPAN
GREAT INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY HUGE MERCHANT FLEET (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, June 23. Captain Humphreys Davis, of Auckland, has arrived in Sydney after a visit to the East. He described Japan as the most industrious and most efficient nation in the world. There was not a port in Japan that was not busier than Sydney, and her merchant fleet was so large that she could transport an army of 1,000,000 men at a moment’s notice. Within 10 years that menace might materialise. Japan was probably the most efficient nation in history. Everywhere were signs of the most intense industrial activity. He feared that Japan was an ever-increasing menace to Australia and New Zealand. Captain H. Feakes, on his return from a tour of China and Japan, stated that Australia was in the Pacific and she could not afford and would not be allowed to avoid the responsibilities of •such a position. He expressed the greatest satisfaction at the news that the Australian Squadron was at last getting back to its former status as a dominiou navy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21988, 24 June 1933, Page 11
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