enough the check the depredations made on the inhabitants by the igcases of Western elvilizaion and other abuses introduced (rom shroud, The Japanese took the silyation In hand energetically and scientifically, and have succeeded in some cases in stopping. declining. populations. and others in bringing tu agriculture industries "which have raised the population from their. former destitution. In'Uhe meantime there has been an influx of Japanese to the islands—a' virile race coming {nto competition with a decadent and indolent The" Japanese have mulUplied; the natives remained Rationary or declining in numbers, As a result, the islands have become steadily more sand more Japanese, development which has been tolerated by the se of Japanese 9 common language In all the schools As. the islands have no common Tanguage of their own, the use. of Japanese cannot be criticized on the grounds. of "Japonizing" the area. Nevertheless the {tet remains th were the Germans lo Fesume control of the islands such as they hod before 1914, they would be taking over territory different in almost all Particulars. from that which was wrested from them. They would have to govern Japanese ad natives brought "up in. Japanese ways of thought; they would have 10 rule 9 rear source of raw materiale in food and the more ornamental industries for Japan. In short, there would be many objections from the Japanese point of view, that the taking over Would be. a. practical impossibility That Japan has been casting covetous eyes upon the rich rescuees of the Netherlands East Indies is not new: mut the suggestion that Germany and japan have agreed upon a division of the spolls of these foreign-owned felons sounds a litle premature, to say the Toast.
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