Appendedare s"meremarksby an eminent Japanese on one question of the hour in Miledo's Drthday at Sydney, Mr. Iwasaki, Speaking at a luncheon in honour of the the Japanesa Consul, referring to the struggle in the Far Kast, said his country was fighting in the interests of civilisation and of and the progress of the world Japan therefore had the sympathy of all who wished for the triumph of enlighten-iment, the progress and the freedom of mankind, In regard to the danger of what was termed the "'yellow peril," he said as little reflection would show that those fears were groundless Like all other nations, the Japynese had some marked 0 character, which any student of Japan's history would easily recognise. They had never been an aggressive race. On the emteary, history showed them to have Toon ossentinlly a peace-loving people. They bad had at longer Loris broken peace than any western natio on several occasions been invaded and which hehad heard or read of. They had attacked, but had never been conquered, so that, even supposing that their hopes should be realised in the present struggle won be no new experience for them.
should come out of it victor: ous,
There was no justification for the iden that they woul! be so inflated with the just or the sake of—fighti ide and lust of conquest hee they would attack some other nation i to avenge some slight, which, in ropability, would have done mi Farm to the country which offered it than to them. Lesst of all would they be likely to provoke conflict with any part of that grest empire which they so much respected and with which, together with the kindred nation of the United States of America, they bad much in common. (Applause.) People who scared themselves with euch silly fears paid but a poor compliment to the power And genius of their own great country, wh lo at the same time they showed that they knew nothing at all of the Japanese. The great desire of Japan was to pursue the arts of peace and to live in friendly communion with the whole world.
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