THE FAR EAST

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 27 January 1911, Page 5

THE FAR EAST

CABLE NEWS

United PreßS Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

IMPORTANT SPEECH BY LORD GURZUN. IM AUG RATION RESTRICTION. (Received Last Night, 11.45 o'clock.) LONDON, January 26. Lord Curzon, in delivering a Rectorial address at the Glasgow University, discussed the demand of the East for -representative institutions. There had, he said, been an enormous change during the decade, and l the personal ruler still appealed to the Oriental; but where absolution is accompanied by. defiance of the national spirit, the East is willing to borrow Western methods. This was a symptom 'of reviving self-consciousaess in the Oriental mind.

Referring to coloured labour, and the objections of Australia, South Africa, Canada and America, he said it was not based' on prejudice alone. It had economic justification. There was a danger; however, that it would, attain serious proportions.. The; British, and;their. Liberal, humanitarian ideas, ' should be ■ the leaders against prejudice, especially as the coloured races within the Empire were outnumbered. . The Eastern woi'ld seemed everywhere to involve a refined sense of national pride, coupled with resentment against foreigners. Possibly if foreign capital and protective instruments were withdrawn, the East would incontinently collapse; -but thefjEast was aspiring to walk alonß. 'BWljjikl the desire there was a certain feeling of injured self-re-spect. The East was unlikely to accept, Christianity. China's future depended mainly on whether the Parliamentary . Government had 1 a dissolvent" effect on the inside of the Empire. If China was able to preserve unity and organise industry and commerce, she must become one of the great Powers. Lorid ,Curzon, continuing, said that the self-centred, unwarlike character of the Chinese rendered it improbable that they would utilise their power for aggressive purposes. China contained enough unoccupied territory for . double '■'■.' her present population. Japan's principal need was to* preserve those national virtues of..selfsacrificing patriotism, andi.' simplic-' ity, which keen observers reported to be in some jeopardy; also to check Socialistic ' doctrines among the industrial proletariat. ' Korea, Manchuria, and Saghalien would suffice for japan's surplus population for a while. If, the present attitude of America, and the British overseas Dominions, in prohibiting Asiatic immigration, were maintained, it may;!lead ito a conflict.; ; The " Philippine"'lslands were, .perilonply; near'to- Japan,"'bittwithin thetropics, where it was dotibtful if the Jap- . anese would be able to settle, . and work. ■