ALL-WHITE POLICY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9018, 3 January 1908, Page 5

ALL-WHITE POLICY.

"THE TIMES" WARNS THE COLONIES. LAST WORD LIES WITH BRITAIN. Received January 2, 10.3 p.m. LONDON, January 2. "The Times," in an artielp, hopes that the fact of the respite temporarily granted to Indians in the Transvaal for resisting the Magistrate's orders to quit may be due to counsels of wisdom and moderation from Lord Elgin. The voice of the Imperial Government might even now make itself heard effectively in Pretoria to restrain the Transvaal from taking extreme measures towards the Indians already settled there. "The Times" then warns the colonies most proudly proclaiming their determination to be white countries of their absolute dependence on the Motherland for protection for their powers to remain white. Without that protection how long, the paper asks, could Australia, for example, exclude the Japanese?—not for six months after the Japanese had made up their minds that settling on grounds in Australia was worth the expedition. The Imperial Government was not without the means of insisting on reasonable compromises in the various colonics in dealing with this gravest and most urgent of Imperial problems, and it is solvable only by direct appeal to the sense of the Imperial responsibility of the sister States of the Empire. "The Times," in its closing remarks, refers to the Indian and Asiatic difficulty generally.