Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original map. See 40305-h.htm or 40305-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40305/40305-h/40305-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40305/40305-h.zip) PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC by FRANK FOX Author of "Ramparts of Empire" London Williams & Norgate 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden 1912 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE 1. THE OCEAN OF THE FUTURE 1 2. RUSSIA IN THE PACIFIC 16 3. THE RISE OF JAPAN 31 4. CHINA AND THE TEEMING MILLIONS OF ASIA 47 5. THE UNITED STATES--AN IMPERIAL POWER 66 6. GREAT BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE PACIFIC 85 7. THE BRITISH CONTINENT IN THE PACIFIC 100 8. NEW ZEALAND AND THE SMALLER BRITISH PACIFIC COLONIES 120 9. THE NATIVE RACES 136 10. LATIN AMERICA 147 11. CANADA AND THE PACIFIC 165 12. THE NAVIES OF THE PACIFIC 176 13. THE ARMIES OF THE PACIFIC 186 14. TREATIES IN THE PACIFIC 199 15. THE PANAMA CANAL 216 16. THE INDUSTRIAL POSITION IN THE PACIFIC 228 17. SOME STRATEGICAL CONSIDERATIONS 245 18. THE RIVALS 263 [Illustration] PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC CHAPTER I THE OCEAN OF THE FUTURE The Pacific is the ocean of the future. As civilisation grows and distances dwindle, man demands a larger and yet larger stage for the fighting-out of the ambitions of races. The Mediterranean sufficed for the settlement of the issues between the Turks and the Christians, between the Romans and the Carthaginians, between the Greeks and the Persians, and who knows what other remote and unrecorded struggles of the older peoples of its littoral. Then the world became too great to be kept in by the Pillars of Hercules, and Fleets--in the service alike of peace and war--ranged over the Atlantic. The Mediterranean lost its paramount importance, and dominance of the Atlantic became the test of world supremacy. Now greater issues and greater peoples demand an even greater stage. On the bosom of the Pacific will be decided, in peace or in war, the next great struggle of civilisation, which will give as its prize the supremacy of the world. Shall it go to the White Race or the Yellow Race? If to the White Race, will it be under the British Flag, or the flag of the United States, or of some other nation? That is the problem of the Pacific.