“JAPANNING” HONOLULU.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 51, 22 June 1914, Page 4

“JAPANNING” HONOLULU.

According to Mr John Gibbs, managing director of tlie New South Wales Merchants and Traders’ Association, who returned last week from a four months’ trip to the East, one of the most remarkable evidences of Japanese colonisation exists in Honolulu. “The Japanese are still going in there in large numbers,’’ said Mr Gibb; “not only men, but young girls who are practically bespoken as wives before they leave Japan.” Mr Gibbs referred to a specific case where 200 young Japanese girls were landed in one shipment at Honolulu, adding that very little imagination was required to picture the situation that would arise with energetic colonisation of this description going out. The Japanese would very soon loom larger than ever in the history of the island. Mr Gibbs, who was also in Japan for five weeks, declared that at present the country had plenty of internal troubles. “Her people are over-tax-ed,” ho said; “she is troubled over the naval scandals, short of money, and, in fact, everything seems to V e upside down.”