BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.
[Australia & N.Z. Cable iAssociation.J PAN-ASIAN CONGRESS, (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) TOKIO, August 1. The Pan-Asiau Congress has opened at Nagasaki. It is the first gathering in the world of delegates of coloured races demanding racial equality and denouncing - white domination. Japan, China, India, Korea, Philippines and Afghanistan are represented by forty delegates. Chinese and India speakers- delivered anti-British speeches, running the whole gamut while pointing out Britain and Australia, were also anti-Japanese, citing the Singapore Base and White Australia policy. Japanese speakers referred constantly to America’s anti-expanism, urging Asian unity in order to secure equal treatment and freedom from whites.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1926, Page 3
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106BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1926, Page 3
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