THE ADVANCING EAST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 2

THE ADVANCING EAST

JAPANESE RESEARCH SUCCESSES The national secretary of the I ,M.C.A., Sir Arthur Yapp.'who returned to London, from a world tour recently, 4 hns come Lack tremendously impressed, bv the development of Tndia and China, and especially Japan. “1 was amazed.” said Sir Arthur 'to the Daily News, “at the surprising rate at, which things are moving in the Far Hast. It was an object-lesson 1o see how up-to-date were great cities like Shanghai and Tokio. They are* infinitely ahead of us in advanced electrical development. “But more gratifying to me than that was the intense thirst for education revealed by the young. In my addresses, which I made on ail average four times a. day. 1 had to call in the assistance of an interpreter on only two occasions. “My admiration for Japanese knowledge was endorsed by a brilliant medical man, who told me that Japan is better served and more successful in research work than Britain, America and Germany put together." After his tour of the East, Sir Arthur visited-Canada. “They are starving for emigrants o( the right sort,” he said. "Their plea everywhere I went was ‘Send'us men who are willing to work and not of the kind who want to teach us how to run Canada and stand by and see us do it.” For men of resource and with resources there are limitless opportunities.”