PACIFIC PROBLEMS
ASIATIC MIGRATION DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE TOKIO, Nov. 2. The Pacific Relations Conference discussions are being devoted to the problems of food and population. There is a striking contrast between countries saturated, like Japan, Java, and parts of China, and sparsely settled America and Australia. The problems are being discussed on scientific grounds, without feeling. With the large increase in the Japanese population, it is admitted that the standards of living have been raised, but a further rise is unlikely if the population increase should continue. The American policy of excluding Asiatic labor entering the Philippines under United (States law was questioned. also Asiatic migration to the Pacific islands.
The burning question of extra-terri-torial ity is now Being discussed. Various plans of compromise based on the admission by the Powers that extra-terri-torialitv is but temporary, were discussed in order to find a modus vivendi,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17099, 4 November 1929, Page 7
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