THE YELLOW PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 5

THE YELLOW PERIL.

CONSUL INTERVIEWED. NEW ZEALAND NEED NOT FEAR AN INFLUX. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Auckland. 'December "27. The Chinese Consul (Mr. C. S. Lanchu), now on an official visit to Auckland, questioned as to the condition of the Chinese in New Zealand, said he had found them progressing very peaceably, and it was an undoubted fact that since the appointment of the first consul a couple of years ago the feeling' between the two peoples—Chinese and New Zealanders—had improved in a marked degree. Pie did not think that the attitude towards exclusion was so marked as may have been the case before. Asked if he considered a greater number of Chinese might come to New Zealand, the consul replied, ♦'Well, the position is this: China is a vast country, with a population of 400,000,000, -and as it becomes developed to greater advantage China will have need for all her own people; therefore, the possibility of our people desiring to come to other countries in excessively large numbers is quite remote." Wellington, he said, was the largest centre of settlement so far as Chinese were concerned. In Auckland there were only forty or fifty Chinese shops; this was exclusive of laundries.

In reference to the work of his predecessor (Mr. Hwang Chang Liang), now Consul-General for Australia, Mr. Lancliu said that they had been fellow students at college in New York and at the Columbia University. This led up to a reference to the revolutionary movement in China, Mr. Lanchu remarking that some thousands of students had returned to China from American educational institutions during recent years, and with their more enlightened views it was only natural that their sympathies. should be with the reform movement. Further, they were backed by considerable financial resources, and they realised that the only hope of improving the old order was by means of a sweeping change in the methods of government.

Mr. Lanchu said he did not know of any Chinese who had gone from New Zealand to assist in the reform movement, but it was possible that financial assistance had been given in some small degree; if so, it was quite in an unofficial manner.