AUSTRALIA.
FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONIES. Melbourne, Jan. 25. The Senate resolutions regarding the after-tlie-war destiny of the captured German colonies demand the representation of Australian interests. Sydney, .Tan, 25. The destiny of the captured German colonies is occupying attention. The Lieutenant-Governor, in a speech referring to the danger of Sdie future of New Guinea being judged in the light of insufficient knowledge, said that one circumstance to which sufficient attention liad never been drawn was that Australia was the one country in the word threatened with the curse of a land frontier with such a nation as Germany under such circumstances as might be avoided. New Guinea had been left With a divided authority, and, quite apart from the dangers arising from submarine ports on the coast of New Guinea, there is this eternal rankling Bore in front of us of a land that can at any moment raise a quarrel about mines, oilfields or anything else. The idea of self-determin-ation in such a case, where occupants like Germans are using every moment to secure their own prestige with the people, is one that no Australian could contcmplate with equanimity for a single moment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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194AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1918, Page 5
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