The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 9, 1915. OUR TROUBLES IN ASIA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 November 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 9, 1915. OUR TROUBLES IN ASIA.

) j LEVIN. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1915 OUR TROUBLES IN ASIA. Some important aspects oi the present _ -war are overlooked by- people who cen- >. tralise attention on the main areas ot | lighting. The warfare in Central Asia seems but a small matter when viewed in the light of the wider areas, but :t b fraught with unpleasant .significance In September last an official statement was made that there had been an irruption of Bunarwals in the Peshawar iliswict, and that a hostile force from Upper Swat had miadte an attack upon our position at Sandsiki. The e I occurrences of necessity must be causing interruption of endeavour in the main theatres of British, activity, audi they undoubtedly account in part for the seemingly inexplicable delays in placing in the European war th.ea.tr2S the overwhelming forces which the Allies 'have been striving to concentrate " along the western front. All the Australasian forces and a goodly number of British troops arc irequired in the Near East, and there is urgent need for the maintenance of strong British forces in India andi its hinterlands. This aspect of the war is dealt witn by Mr I<\ A. MoKenzie, the war correspondent of "War Illustrated," in an article on "The Danger in Central Asia." Incidentally he touches upou the attitude of the Japanese people m I a way that hints at a constitutional instability becoming manifest in our ' eastern allies. He hegins his article by saying that apart from Mohammedan nations, the Buddliiet peoples of Asia and the Confucian.? are beginning to question what the future will bring forth. A trusted and levelheadwd correspondent in Eastern. Asia reflects the position there in & letter which has just reached me. "China is very strongly pro-German," he writes, "and from the very first the Chinese military authorities, many of whom wore trained in Germany, believed that Germany would win out. Germany has most cleverly handled the Chinese vernacular press, and has shown no shortage of able men or money, while we British with our heads buried in the sand have beeu stupidly asleep. Central Asia is being worked through and through, and once the banner of the Great White Tsar <s humbled in Warsaw, the once embedded States of Central Asia will hegin to feel t3iat their time is coming. With the Asiatics nothing succeeds like success, and might is right. The Japanese Government is, I am sure, honouraibly loyal to its alliance with us, hut numhens of its better informed people say that we are only half-heart-edly attempting to light for our life and existence. This last criticism may seem to many of my readers, as it I seems to mo, unjust. The question is however, not Is it just or unjust, b.u what matyi be the effect of other peoples entertaining this opinion of us?"