PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 10

PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.

VISITOR

DISTINGUISHED JAPANESE

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

WELLINGTON, December 6

Speaking English fluently, Mr Iyemasa Tokugawa, Imperial Japanese Consul-General in Sydney, who was among tho guests at the Rotary Club's weekly luncheon to-day, expressed the opinion that for the sake of good relations between Japan and Australia and New Zealand! it was necessary that the people of each country should know the real conditions and circumstances obtaining in each, and to be on terms of good understanding, which could be brought about only by cooperation. Sir Alexander Roberts, who introduced Mr Tokugawa, said that their guest was son and heir of Prince Tokugawa, president of the Japanese House of Peers. He represented Japan at the Washington Conference in 1921 andl served his time for about six years altogether at the Japanese Embassy in London. During the latter period he took charge ol the Embassy several times in the absence of the Ambassador. He was also one of tho Japaneso delegates to the Assembly of the League of Nations. Formerly' he was first secretary of the Japanese Legation in Peking lor nearly four years, and was private secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

Mr Tokugawa, who was greeted with applause, said he attended a conference of the Tokio Rotary. Club during his recent visit to Japan, and he wished to convey greetings to the Wellington Club. One of the ideals of Rotary, continued Mr Tokugawa, was the promotion of peace and understanding. It was very necessary that the countries bordering the Pacific should have a proper knowledge of each other's viewpoint. Without cooperation mere words of peace were useless. Rotary's contribution in that direction was well known, and he congratulated the various clubs in New Zealand on their splendid 'work.