AUSTRALIA AND COLOURED NATIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 7

AUSTRALIA AND COLOURED NATIONS.

~ — .<* TROUBLE MAY COME SOONER THAN IS EXPEU/IED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 28th December. Dr. Maxwell, the Queensland sugar expert, was interviewed by the press prior to his departure for New Zealand to-day to enquire into matters connected with sugar production. Referring to the Australian sugar industry, Dr. Maxwell said he sympathised with the White Australia, idea, but it was not known even yet whether the industry could be left entirely to white labour, or whether white labour could do it economically and satisfactorily. Touching on the wider question of Australia's relations to the coloured nations, Dr. Maxwell stated that Australia's danger lay in the East. Australia was the final outpost of the Pacific — the last great vacant country — and the eyes of the East were on it. The Japanese were the most to be feared, and if they got any eoit, of foothold in the north, Australia, would never be able to drive them out. Thero was no telling what the result would be. Every Japanese was every inch a soldier at heart, and when in Hawaii he learned that a large number of Japanese there drilled every night for amusement. They had smuggled in arms, too. Australia could not afiord to take any risks, as the Japanese would do the same here as at tiawaii. Dr. Maxwell added that although fliousands of immigrants were coming to Aus, tralia from America, still in the meantime Australia had its empty lands, and trouble might come sooner than was expected.