UNKNOWN PEOPLE.

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 17, 29 April 1944, Page 4

UNKNOWN PEOPLE.

IF you have a map in

you moss hall, take a lock at Thailand. There are 15.718.000 people in that area - a country of 200.000 square miles. Add to that French Indo-Ohina where there arc 24.000.000 people in an area of 286.000 square miles* Lot those figures oink in as you gaze at your map*Ask yourself what the area of .New Zealand is*. Then look at the. Dutch East Indies,Borneo, Sumatra and ths Celebes : again you moot millions of people and thousands of square miles of territory..

what JAPAN taught.

.WHILE looking at the map bear . in'mind.that■all the places and people before you have more, in common with the Japs than they have with Now Zealanders. ? Remember that the Japs . taught thorn that she could . drive the white man before' her bayonets; 1 she showed • to those., millions '.of people that the divine right of the white -man to rule could be shattered. Donot fool yourself that those people will bo loyal to you because you can lick the Jap.

Where You Fit In*

.XN the past the Pacific has boon ignored by European-. powers, except aJ 'a c chose board where pawns may bo traded, The circumstances that brought you to Hew Caledonia awakened ...the millions- of whom we have . written, They will look , across tho Pacific ’to lands populated by who are closely akin. to ‘ themelves. They will see all the islands where rice, root crops, fruit and fish are procurable; they will