NOT GIVING UP NEW GUINEA

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 353, 6 February 1937, Page 5

NOT GIVING UP NEW GUINEA

GERMAN COLONIES AUSTRALIA'S VIEW. Government’s Mind Definitely Made Up.

Press Association—Copyright,

Sydney, Feb. 5.

“The coming Imperial Conference or the discussions outside it should provide opportunities for Mr. J. A. Lyons, if the Australian Government’e- mind is made up, to convey that in no circumstances’ will Australia consider the surrender of the mandate in New Guinea to especially to a Germany which has made a treaty with Japan of which the full terms have not been disclosed,” says the Sydney Morning Herald.

“Germany has possibly done us a service by raising this* question because the recent official disposition in Canberra towards ‘cocking a snook’ at the Mother Country—in the assertion of some local right to deny when it suits us the principle of Imperial co-operation—may now become subdued. When the subject of discussion is immigration we try to avoid it; if it be the investment of British capital there is a furious eagerness to prefer American; the British air mail scheme met with official opposition here, as sturdy as it was stupid, for over two yea's.

“The slogan ‘tuning in with Britain’ petered out when we had converted our London loans and secured our meat export concessions. They German demand for New Guinea in ay set it afluttering again at Canberra.”