WHITE AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 7

WHITE AUSTRALIA

CAN IT BE MAINTAINED?

IF JAPAN'S MILLIONS COME!

MR, W. M. HUGHES WARNS THE

PEOPLE.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION I.—COPTRIGHT.)

(Received 10th July.. 12.30 p.m.)

( _ . SYDNEY, This Day. Mi 1. W. 31. Hughes, in a special article in the ".Daily Telegraph," urging the need for developing and populating Australia, points out tbat Japan, as a matter of necessity of life and death must find an outlet for her surplus population. "She believes in the greatness of her destiny, and feels capable of goin;; much further than she had done in national development, and is she to be told that she alone amongst the nations must not do so? It is hardly for Australia, whose great need is population, to complain if she does not consent to impose checks upon hor own population. ■

"If these, millions knock at our doors, how are we to deny them admittance? We cannot hopo to find shelter behind some treaty, Washington or another. "The League of Nations cannot hel\» us, and it would be to the interest of the greater part of'• the world that these starving millions should settle in Australia rather than with them. These millions, with certain death behind them, may never come; but if they do, and find us still a more handful of people in possession of a great contim/it, then for us and our cherished ideals it' is the end. T£e must prove ourselves worthy to fence off from an overcrowded world one.of the earth's fairest" possessions. A little time is still ours to prepare, by filling our/ vacant spaces with nion and women of our own race, and to do all that needs doinp to make good our claim to a great and fruitful continent." • .