TWO YELLOW PERILS AHEAD

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 1

TWO YELLOW PERILS AHEAD

WHITE CIVILISATIONS IN DANGER OF DESTRUCTION. WAR DEBASED EUROPE IN ORIENTAL EYES. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Sydney “ Sun ” Cable. (Received June 22, 10.30 a.in.) LONDON. June 21. The “ Sunday Pictorial," in an article explaining Chinese aspirations from the viewpoint of the present disturbances, says:— “ Two yellow perils are ahead of the white civilisations. The first, is industrial, and includes Japan, which is already under-selling Europeans in Eastern markets. When China takes to industrialism in earnest she will under-live and undersell to an extent even greater than Japan. “Secondly, the day is coming when China, possessed of great fleets and millions of armed troops, will become a firstrank Power in the Pacific. The question will then assume a different aspect, with a possible alliance between Japan and China. Although the Chinese hordes may not march on Europe, aerial invasion is possible, and it is certain that Chinese naval squadrons will some day be seen in European waters. “ It is also tolerably certain that a united and strong China will some day seize the empty, prolific Northern Territory of Australia. Japan is at present the Australians’ bogey, but they are looking in the wrong direction. The Japanese belong to the Temperate Zone, and could not thrive in the Northern Territory. The Chinese could thrive equally in the Northern Territory and at the North Pole. “Europe’s prestige has suffered terribly as the result of the war, and the Orientals were amazed at four and a half years’ gigantic devastation, and senseless mutual destruction. Nowadays, even the nerveless Pekin Government sends impertinent messages to the European Legations, because the Chinese know that Europe is prostrate and unwilling to engage in hostilities anywhere.”