Japan and Australia.
[Per Press Association! Sydney, Sept. 8. Sir Audley Coote. who has returned from China, where he represented an influential syndicate with respect to the contract for the Hankow Pekin railway, gives some startling information concerning the Japanese view of Australia. He declares that while travelling in a railway carriage, in which were a number of military officers, the subject under discussion was Australia, and a friend with him translated the nature of the conversation. This showed that the Japanese desired an outlet for their surplus population. The suitability of Australia for growing coffee, rice, and other tropical products was discussed, and one officer ventured the opinion that Australia was like the dog in the manger, and that somone would have to take a good portion of Australa and develop it, and it was a pity such a fine country was lying waste. Though Japan re copnised Engiand as a useful ally, still if ill-feeling arose tbe policy she then ought to pursue was to send several battleships to annex a large portion of Northern Australia.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 3
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178Japan and Australia. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 3
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