PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 21 November 1924, Page 9

PACIFIC PROBLEMS.

* MR WILFORD SPEAKS. (bt CABLE—tEBSS association:—coshuoht) (AUSTBALIAH AND N.£. CAULS ASBOCIATIOH.) SYDNEY, November 20. Mr T. M. Wilford (Leader of tho Opposition in New Zealand) expressed his, Opinions ou Pacific problems In an interview. The Japanese as a people, ho said, were not internationally aggressive. He knew, however, that despite tho pacific natures of the people the' Genro or Elder Statesmen of Japan had the private ear of tho Emperor. It wao on their whisperings that the decisions of war were arrived at. Mr Wilford said the exclusion lava of America would never furnish accuse of war. Tho exclusion laws of Japan, though not so-called, were equally effective against the United States *M against every nation of the world. No foreigner could engage in agriculture in Japan, nor coufd he hold property or practise professions without impossible conditions.

Mr Wilford stated that Japan did not want to fight Australia or Now Zealand, sho wanted only an alteration in the immigration laws. J'Thcro' is no necessity for her to be aggressive if we are willing to have feor people,'' > said Mr Wilford,"but we are not willing."