THE EAST IN THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1918, Page 6

THE EAST IN THE WAR.

ADDRESS BY DR, MORRISON. . Dunedin, .Jan. 2.1. The Otago Expansion League to-night entertained Dr. G. E. Morrison and Professor Trueblood. In the course of a weighty address Dr. Morrison referred to tiie accession of Korea to Japan. This meant the addition to the Japanese nation of 17,000,000 people, capable of learning anything. The tendency of the Japanese and the Chinese was to move southwards, and the Japanese had not only great efficiency, but the military spirit, and were trained on Prussian"line 3, and the sympathies of the Japanese military jjeople were rather with than against German military action in Europe. China was in 1?14, and again in 1915 anxious to come into the war oc. the Allies' side, but circumstances prevonteJTier doing so. Now she was in the war on the Allies' side, but circumstances prevented iier 'doing so. Now she was in tiie war, and by entering she had dealt a severe economic blow to Germany. In no countries in the world had German influence inerea"sej more rapidly of recent years than in China and Siam. Now both were into the war, and this strengthened the Allies' cause with the Mohammedans. Had China entered the struggle earlier, it would have saved the Allies many anxious momenta.