THE REVOLT OF ASIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16364, 11 June 1927, Page 10

THE REVOLT OF ASIA

"The revolt of Asia has come; the white man's world dominance is at an end." That, reduced to its simplest • terms, is Upton Close's message to the West in his new book "The .Revolt of Asia" (Angus and .Robertson). It is a message based upon his personal experience,, and one that ho presents buttressed with facts. His is no alarmist's book. As! he states in his opening chapter, he is the spokesman of no "yellow peril"scare nor "rising tide of color" theme. His book "is a simple story, written after twenty thousand miles of investigation in every country from Japan to Palestine, and a background of ten years' intimate association with men and movements in Pacific Asia, of how one half the world, gradually brought into subservience by the other half during the past four hundred years, has awakened to its shame and risen to take its destiny in its own hands." S China is "the backbone of the New! Asia," but China has only taken the lead in the revolt of the entire Orient; India is seething with nationalism, the Philippine patriots are on the alert, Egypt, Malaya, Mesopotamia—all the countries of the East are preparing to fling the westerners from their borders. The awakening of the Eastern giant has long been predicted: at last the hour haa struck. | Before long all eyes will turn to- ! wards the Orient; in "The Revolt of ■ Asia" you will discover the causes and probable effects of the gathering storm that will mark a turning-point ; in world history.'

-The author Josef Washington Hall (Upton Close) is a lecturer at the University of Washington, a wellknown and adventurous explorer, and evidently a very close and intelligent observer.