THE FAR EAST.
PEACE OF THE ORIENT.
PRINCE ITO'S VIEWS
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright
LONDON, August 26
Prince Ito, formerly Premier of Japan, in a, speech, at Takushima, said he doubted whether China could successfully adopt a Constitution, wh-'e failure would imperil the peace of the Far East.
x Aniong the reasons for his doubts, Prince Ito gave the following:—Firstly, the enormous area of the Empire and its defective communications: secondly, the immovable conservatism forbidding a change even in the system of taxation; thirdly, that the Chinese were untrained to local administration. The latter was an essential prelude to a National Assembly. He was astonished at the silence of Occidental publicists on this question, so vital to the peace of the Orient.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13991, 28 August 1909, Page 6
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