MR. JOHN FOSTER FRASER

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 5

MR. JOHN FOSTER FRASER

' ■' PA.RLIAJIENTARY AUBEIONi; 9 THE BALKANS A POWDER MAGAZINE, j (By Telegraph.—Presa Association,— OopyrlcbLl s i. ,;. Perth, August 18. J Mr. John Foster Fraser, the Englißl j author and; journalist, who intends to delivci s lectures in: Australia; arrived here by 9 llorea. ''.*i >';> i;'. ;■' j In au interview, Mr. Fraser stated that 2 ]i 0 will stay in Australia till the British ' Parliament meets in January next. Ho in« I tends to oppose Mr. llsunaay Mac Donald,' f Labour membor for Leicester, at the noxi I election. ■' 0 . One of the subjects of Mr. FraseHs inquiries in' Australia will he fomale 6ufcago, v,-]iich lie. favours, and is suro will como in England'one of these dayi. : ' : Referring to European affairs, the visitor , said tliat 'as things now stand thero was constant dread-of-an explosion. First thero was the struggle botwoen Britain and Qer< ' many for sea "supremacy; then thore was the 1 Balkans trouble; and thoro was aIBO bound to l>o trouble between Austria and Hungary " when the old Emperor dies. . ( , Ho was not sure that an explosion would originate in one of the big Powers; it was 1 more likoly to come in the form of a Balkan dispute., .' ' ■ . ,-- \ [Mr. Poster Frader has chosen ono of tho t ablest of the Labour party when ho . challenges j. Mr. Eamsay Mac Donald, whose capacity hat t been'recognised by- most of tho Unionist Parliar mentary writers, including Mr. Fraser himself , as Parliamentary correspondent of tho "Standard." A recent biographical summary describes Mr. Mac Donald as the "organiser of the Labour party; a Scot, and. tho son of a labourer. Ho is ,a Journalist, and an effective writer on • economio subjects; a weaker'of. groat force, . with an assured Parliamentary future." In 1901 Mr. Kamsay Mac Donald visited South Africa, and in 1008 he extended his Empire - knowledge by visiting Canada, Australia, and . New Zealand; Mr. Poster. Prascr is now or a similar mission. , He "is at lioire on the sub ject of the BalltanS, having published a'book • based on personal investigations there.]