AUSTRALIA AND THE JAPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 169, 16 July 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND THE JAPS.

KEEPING THE COUNTRY WHITE A PALPABLE IMMORALITY. (Received 8.17 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 15. Jr. Eicha rd Arthur, MX.A. of Sydney, president of the Immigration League of Australia, in a letter to the Press, pleads for a quarter of a million British emigrants annually as the best solution of Ihe defence problem in Australia, especially against Japan. He complained of the withdrawal of British warships from the Pacific when i, Japanese invasion seemed imminent, and said that it was n o wonder Australians hailed America as a possible supporter in the hour of trial. The Bishop of South Tokio, in a letter to "The Times," says that the Japanese ,-3o not entertain the slightest idea of invading Australia or coveting the Philippines. Rumours of Japanese design on Aus- ■, tralia rest on absolutely nothing but the uneasy consciences of those who are keeping lands they cannot use themselves. It is, he adds, certain that China and Japan will ultimately complain of the palpable immorality of the idea that white men may penetrate to the Far East, while Far Eastern nations must oot penetrate Australia.