OUTLET FOR POPULATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 5

OUTLET FOR POPULATION

JAPAN’S FAR-SEEING POLICY BID FOR PACIFIC MASTERY Lourenco Marques, Aug. 30. Japan can be beaten only by driving her out of Manchuria, China, Malaya, and the East Indies, says Mr George Gorman, a journalist who has spent 16 years in the Far East. He said that Japan's determined bid for mastery in the Pacific is based on a more far-seeing policy than immediate military subjugation.

The keynote of the Japanese programme is a population increase, carried forward by the systematic reproduction of their own kind. Japanese births are expected to reach 2,000,000 annually within five years.. The Japanese in the occupied territories are waging a continuous campaign against the white races.

Japan is powerfully organised financially. There are fixed low prices for every commodity, rationing is faithfully performed and the people r:e not spending their surplus money because very little can be purchased for entertainment. » Voluntary savings are, therefore, buttressing the obligatory investment in Government bonds. There is full exploitation of the resources of industry, trade and commerce in order to stave off the internal economic pressure. Japan cannot be beaten by a blockade or by internal disruption, Mr Gorman said. The Japanese themselves believe that only defeat at sea con beat them. The Japanese contend that they will hold the territory :,ney have won not only becatse then manpower is always increasing, but also because they propose to give the native peoples better terms than they have received from the whites. —8.0. W.