THE YELLOW PERIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 25, 21 May 1914, Page 5

THE YELLOW PERIL.

CENERAL HAMILTON'S REPLY. In his speech at the civic reception at New Plymouth yesterday, General Hamilton made reference to a cable from Tokio in which exception was taken by a section of the Japanese Press to the reported speech at Auckland by him, in which he was said to have made reference to the Pacific as a possible battlefield between Europeans and Asiatics. The cable stated that one paper looked on him as "a disturber of the peace."

General Hamilton said that ho had been unfortunate in incurring the displeasure of certain organs of the Press of an allied country. This displeasure was based on the evidence of a reported speech, and all he could say was that the news must have been spiced up when passing through the tropics. After all, what was there in his statement ? He had merely put a hypothesis which seemed sound in theory. In effect he had said that as Empires grew in size wars would liecome fewer, but more terrible. He had imagined a period when great Empires would involve continents, and continents would then be concerned in contests either in arms, or what was worse, in economic strife. In admitting this possibility, he had said that New Zealand was doing; well in preparing, and from what he had seen he would say that New Zealand was doing her best, and would be ready for the millennium, should it occur, or for Armageddon, should that lie her luck. —'■'""""-i 1 imwwMirtiMiwiiwffiiflt