Aug. 12.
Qne of the strangest social features of recent years is the immense amount of" migration that is taking place all over the world. Until one studies the! question it is almost impossible to imagine the great dispersions of races that are actually occurring, and even then we can searcely realize the effect which such a movement of peoples must have upon the outlook, polities and policies of the nations. A most interesting and informative article in a recent] number of the "International Review of Missions," brings before us a number of striking] facts and figures. The very] silence that accompanies these mighty migrations causes us to miss much of their import, but none the less they are relentless forces which for good or evil are being let loose upon, humanity, and which are affecting more and more the whole of the human race, Those ancient migrants the Jews are.still moving over the surface of the earth. Since the war they have been pouring into the United States in such numbers that that country now contains more Jews than any other country in the world. The Chinese have, of course, lens been noted for their migrations to other lands, there are few countries indeed who do not number some of the sons of Cathay amongst their inhabi ants, and even the fact that certain nations have closed the doors against their further immigration has not ended the dispersion for we are told that] during the last four years no fewer than five million Chinese have trekked into Manchuria. It estimated that at the present time there are not less than ten millions of Chinese living abroad, compared. with which the number of hard-hearted, imperialist foreigners resident in China is a mere handful.
But it is not only the yellow] race that is on the move, the black races are also to be included in this modern hegira. Few of us realize that France had during the years 1920 to 1925 added no fewer than two and a half million foreigners to her population, these mainly coming from: North and West to work in the mines, vineyards and docks
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