From Our Own Correspondent.
Tokio, April 5.
That there is-no room in the Dutch East Indies for Japanese immigrants because the chief island, Java, is already over-Populated ant the Dutch colonial Jgovernment. is, in consequence and means sending the superfluous population to [Borneo and Sumatra, was hint thrown out by General 5. ©, Pabst, Netherlands Minister to Tokio, when Japanese press men interviewed him on the sub-java is densely populated,"" he "almost as bad as Holland, my Own country. As a result of {tho rapid increase im the population, the area of uncultivated land in the Dutch East Indies is growing smaller and smaller every day, aod oven the bush lands of Sumatra and -Borneo have been transformed into. rice fields at amazing speed. 'There no possibility of the Dutch East Indies, therefore, receiving immigrants from other countries.'
Referring to the dropping of the bill for the expansion of the Dutch Far Eastern navy by the Dutch parliament recently, Genoral Pabst said: "Luckily or unluckily, the bill was beaten by 50 to 49 in the Tower House, 100 mendoersabsenting themselves [because the opposition to the bill became very strong owing to the present financial difficcties of the carisjuake help to siscuethes earthquake helpeil to stre the hands of the elements opposed to an augmentation of the. Dutch fleet in the East."
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