DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14254, 3 January 1920, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

Some interesting facts concerning Japan’s methods in Japanese Rule the Marshall and in .Caroline Islands The Islands '’nvere given the other

day by Mr Thomas ,T. McMahon in a lecture before the Royal Photographic Society. In the Marshalls there are 10,000 native Christians, and these were praying day and night for British protection, but, as Mr McMahon said, they were not consulted. The Japanese announced that they would govern on British lines, but they have suppressed, or rendered inactive the schools and missions, and the natives want 40. ge,t,.;these back again. In Japanising theJislands, the Japanese are as thorough-going as the Germans used to be. Their hospital work among the natives is admirable, and their .schools, in which the Japanese language is compulsory, are very efficiently conducted. “Every king and chief,” Mr MpM ; ah,on said, "had been ordered to Japan’ and nothing had been omitted to impress them with the power and genius of the Japanese. Wherever they went moving pictures were taken, so that the natives could see the wonders of Japan, and share their rulers’ experiences. Every article imported was made in Japan, and the natives were wearing Japanese clothes." As Mr McMahon says, it will be well to keep an eye. on Japanese policy in these regions.