PACIFIC MANDATES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20926, 4 January 1938, Page 2

PACIFIC MANDATES

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION Japanese are pouring into the islands held under mandate at the rate of 10,000 a year, said Mr A. J. Marshall, the Australian naturalist, before leaving on a special visit to study the bower bird. The Japanese were reported to be intermarrying with natives, who doubtless would be eventually swamped, just as the small semi-European population of the Bonins had been submerged in the Japanese flood. Mr Marshall recalled how Japanese were securing control of business in the New Hebrides. Japanese economic penetration is very extensive throughout the South Seas. It is felt here that the GermanJapanese alliance provides the strongest reason against the return of New Guinea. Otherwise there might have been some argument in favour of having a strong European Power in this region of the Pacific cheek by jowl with the Japanese, but not when the two are working together in an allegedly ideological crusade against Communism.

It might be found that their dangerous ideas were as active in the Pacific as they were in Spain or China.

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