IMPERIAL NEGLECT.
CABLE; NEWS
AUSTRALIAN GRIEVANCES.
BRITAIN’S PACIFIC POLICY
United Press Association—Copyright LONDON. April 5.
The Standard, commenting on a pamphlet embodying a series ot articles published by th > Sydney Morning Herald at tho end of last year, dealing with tho British policy an tho Pacific, snvs: “It i: a paintul record of Colonial Office mismanagement and Imperial neglect. All tho talk about the Empire during tho last two donates has left Downing Street nearly untouched. Tho Australian grievances aro actual. Other nations associate themselves witl|i tho merchants and settlers’ enterprises; Britain leaves the merchants to fight their own buttles.” , , . , The Standard cites the history of Marshall Islands and the New Hebrides. It docs not Attributo the rosjKHisibility wholly 1 o the laxity and indolence "of tho departments. It blames Parliament and electorates for being absorbed i>y party conflicts and parochial cares;.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2159, 7 April 1908, Page 3
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