GERMAN EXPANSION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10514, 2 January 1912, Page 3

GERMAN EXPANSION

AN AMAZING SUGGESTION. THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA. (Received Deeomber 31, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 30. The Speofeator of December 23rd contained an article on German expansion and discussed the unreasonableness of conceding any British territory on t(he ground that all is in ofi fective operation. In to-day's issuo of the Spectator, Professor Oadecott, of King's Coik'g.->, London, triver,-cr; xliis argnmem :i;ui asks: "Can wo honestly ray four ami n half millions are 'effective occupation'

in Australia, or able to keep Japan and China out? Would not a White Australia bo moro stable if tllie EnghY/i j iliad tllio eastern 'half and Germans tha j western? Are a quarter of a- million j Westralians equitably entitled to pre i vent a great- nation taking its uart ' under the Southern Cross? The un occupied part, of Australia is '•) s'.tious cause of instability when yio.ving the infhienco of Europe upon the in a large way." The Spectator denounces liheso <>pinions as an vilustration of the extraordinary lengths t-o which well-meaning but muddle-} Leader people will go to put their country in the wrong, "but it is difficult," it says, "to find words to repel tho amazing suggest;! > i IKt E u'latcl slhruid hiand over % Continent wiiuh has Ixenßritisli f-r over a century, s.vstralia would fight to a man to repel the admission of a foreign Power, and Australia would be right. For the mother Country, in a wanton eesbacy of philanthropic sentimentality, to introduce a xnili- | tary race like the Germans, would make a bloody struggle for suprem- j ■acy a certainty.'? ,