WARNING TO EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 4

WARNING TO EUROPE.

AMERICA RANGRIJ BEHIND ENGLAND. THE .PROTECTION- OF AUSTRALIA. . The New York Sun's leading article j on Anglo-American relations contained a distinct warning. In this article Germany is warned that she must reckon , on America's antagonism if she attempts to hreak the peace with England. The New York Sun is in very close touch with the President, Mr. Taft, and there ( is no room for doubt that this article defines exactly the attitude of the Administration iu Washington- The leader, , which is headed "The English People and Ourselves," after discussing the need of a strong navy for Australia, says: — "At the present time England might as well be without a navy so far as concerns the protection of Australia. It is impossible for her navy to leave home waters—even a diversion to the Mediterranean of any considerable body of warships is oat of the question. "The conviction is unshakable that Germany would seize the occasion to strike a fatal blow at British supremacy on the seas, and it is undoubtedly only too true that such is the case. If England were commercially negligible as a rival and had divested herself of colonial responsibilities, as her present Government appears to desire, Germany would abate her naval pretensions at once. "That element of British public opinion which is not immersed in fictitious Socialism or blinded by historical altruism which finds expression.in the relinquishment of South Africa to the Boers, which does not exult in universal paternalism, must presently react and resume its former supremacy. When it does, and when there is an end of sentimental profligacy, the reintegration nf race solidarity amy occur which will bring Great Britain again into relations with her colonies. To such a consummation it is impossible we should be indifferent. England's children are a -mighty multitude. Animlted by a common impulse, and in obedience to an awakened emo--1 Hon of nationality and heredity, it would be a singular contingency in which they did not prevail. The union of Britons is more profoundly a concern ' of this country than any other pheno- [ menon possible to humanity."