ANOTHER WAR PREDICTED.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1924, Page 4

ANOTHER WAR PREDICTED.

EAST VERSUS WEST. SYDNEY, .Toly I. Australia, according to Sir Joseph Carruthers, -M.L.C., it t one time Premier of New South Wales, lots every cause to be alarmed at world developments. “I am convinced now,” he saitl at ;i luncheon in Sydney yesterday, •'that unless some- miraculous change occurs sunn, there will he another great war, and a war of races, ill which the supremacy of the white race will 1.0 challenged by a combination of tbe Eastern tines with (he Bolshevistic elements of the West. 11

“The possible issues lllnt we. or oitr children,'' the speaker continued,

“will have to Lice are too deadly serious to permit of any avoidance of our facing the real facts. Unless the leaders of public opinion and of public a flairs in Parliament and in the Press succeed in uniting Australia in a policy of peopling this continent—not only to develop it, but to defend ifthen Australia will have to go through a supreme crisis in it* history, and its destiny its a home of the white people under their own rule may he irretrievable lost.

"'As sure as night follows the day, Australia v. ill have to luce a time of reckoning for its lolly and apathy in regard to its most vital question. Within the last ten days the (-allies have Hashed to us the news that (he heat!, of the Rttssias Soviet Government lias issued an appeal to the yellow and dark races nr the East to join with Russia in a deadly war against the white race and its civilisation. “The cables have also advi-cd us

that publicist* <l l Dot It American and Japan are now voicing the view Inal, , a war between Japan and America is inevitable within a few years. Trotsky, I the Russian Minister for War, is cx-j hortiog the Russians, including its: A'-iatic Soviets, to live every means in j their power ihnroiighlv to equip flic j Rad Army for a war of conquest and j extermination of all the moderate ele- 1 metiLs of Western civilisation. j “In HHI B I made several speeches in j Sydney, in which I ventured to say I lhat a war with Germany was inevitable. I had fuels then in my possession which warranted my opinion, and I gave those facts to the people of, A list ralin- only to meet with criti-i eisni that I was a scaremonger.”