The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, July 2, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1064, 2 July 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, July 2, 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Mr Hogie, ot Sydney, iu an article in the Nineteenth Century, deals with the growing Japanese power, and says the Japanisatiou of China will eventually make Japan mistress of the East. He emphasises Australia’s vulnerability, and adds that any power holding Australia holds the key to South Africa. He instances the recent Japanese Antarctic expedition, which he describes as merely part of a design to spy out Pacific territory. Australian opinion was that iu the event of an AngloGerman war Japan would take decisive action iu the South Pacific. The keeping ot Australia concerned not merely Britain, but also the United States, and the European Powers, and this consideration alone ought to keep Germany from quarrelling with Britain or Britain from thwarting Germany’s African expansion.

Mr Eeoyd-George, in his speech at Woodford, said : “We boast of the largest navy in the world, the greatest commerce on land and sea, the greatest mercantile marine, and the greatest Empire, but wheu shall we think it worth while to boast we have an Empire of the happiest people, free from poverty and the terrors of children crying for bread ? In front of you is the biggest task Democratic Britain will ever undertake. We have got to free a laud shackled to the chains of feudalism from that which is a shame and a disgrace to the richest country in the world. The Insurance Act is a beginning, and with God’s help it is but a beginning.” Good luck to you, Eloyd George!