The Archive · 1923

Archbishop of York's Grave Forboding

THE MODERNIZATION OF THE EAST

London, Nov. 30

The Archbishop of York, in the course of a speech wt Hull to-day, ocked what was going to happen when the world's centre of gravity shifted from Europe to Asia and the inexhaustible physical resources of the Bast, backed up by Western civilization, clouded the horizon. If there was nothing to control their natural instinct of self-aggrandizement, if the -same state of industry came in the East as had made great profits at the beginning of the 19th century: possible, then the whole of the industries of Britain would be wiped out.~-~Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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