NO SURRENDER

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 9

NO SURRENDER

Australia and Mandate in New Guinea DEMAND BY GERMANY “Cocking a Snook” at Mother Country CAN BERRA’S DISPOSITION By Telegraph.—Press Assu.—Copyright, (Received February 5, 8.10 p.m.) Sydney. February 5. The "Sydney Morning Herald,” in a leading article, says: "The coming Imperial Conference, or the discussions outside if. should provide opportunities for the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, if the Government’s mind is made up, to convey that in no circumstances will Australia consider the surrender of her mandate in New Guinea to Germany, especially to a Germany which has made a treaty with Japan of which the full terms have not been disclosed. “Germany possibly has done us It service by raising this question because of the recent ollieial disposition in Canberra toward ‘cocking a snook’ at the Mother Country—in assertion of some local right to deny when it suits us the principle of Imperial co-operation—-may now become more subdued. “When the subject of discussion is immigration we try to avoid it; if it be the investment of British capital there is a curious eagerness to prefer American; the British Air Mail scheme met with official opposition here as sturdy as it was stupid for over two years. “Tile slogan ‘Tuning in with Britain’ petered out when we had converted our London loans and secured our meat export concessions. The German demand for New Guinea may set it afluttering again in Canberra,” the newspaper concludes.