"HANDS OFF THE PACIFIC."
AUSTRALIA'S DETERMEfATIOIC. NO MORE GERMANISM THERE. (Received 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Mr. W. M. Hughes, Premier of Australia, epeaking at the Pilgrims' Club, reiterated that Australia's policy, as regards Germany's possessions in the Pacific, -was inexorably "Hands off the Pacific" There the islands stretched like a barrier across the routes to other lands, and whoever commanded these routc3 commanded Australia, which could not agree to a peace which would permit New Guinea to be returned to Germany. The Pacific was going to be the scene of many international complications and racial problems, and until Germany was democratised she must not be permitted to cast the shadow of despotic rule over lands whbse development depended on freedom. Australia's policy carried great and grave responsibilities, bnt she was prepared to fight on until victory was assured. He was also sure that America would put her veto against German influence in the Pacific—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 5
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