THE NEW HEBRIDES

Evening Star, Issue 12674, 30 November 1905, Page 6

THE NEW HEBRIDES

Pro« Ai»3ciation—By Teiegrapl*—CJoj-yrijln. THE ANSWICIToF FRANCE. AN OMINOUS - DELIVERANCE. I'AltfS, November 29. (Received November 50, at 8.10 a.m.) I Referring in tho Chamber of Deputies ] to the New Hebrides, M. Gervais, re- j porter to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, ' remarked that considering the excellent rela- ' tiou-s bet.weeii ixjudoo ai.d Paris be hoped | our neighbors would W- able to bring Aus- j tralitt to an equitable appreciation of the ' rights of France, in Older to secure the ; cotifirmation in the New Cali*doni:m archi- ; pelago of the. situation that was the to 1 'France owing to her pecuniary sacrifices. I tho moral and material efforts of her sub- ! jects, and because of the incontestable geo- ! graplucal fact that the New Hebrides eon- j stituted a dependency of tho French cc- ; lony. j NO ROOM FOR OTHER POWERS. j MR DEAFUN MUST ACT'. j AUSTRALIAN APATHY THE CAUSE. SYDNEY, November 30. (Received November 30, at 10.11 a.m.) Tho ' Herald,' commenting on M. Gcrvats' cable reference to the New Hebrides, says ' therb should be no further question of the J coed to emphasise at the earliest opport'i j nity that Australia is the dominant forr« j in the Pacific, and that further intrusions by the Powers of cither Hemisphere will be bitterly resented. The duty <>f Mr Deakin is to promptly inform the Colonial Office that Australia entertains nothing but hostility to sny proposal for the extension of foreign interests in the Pacific. The 'Telegraph,' after declaring rhat M. i Gervais' suggestion is not acceptable, says that the attitude of the Australian Parlia- ' ment and Government might well give the ' French new hope and incline the Bnliih - Government to make concessions. Indiff ;r- ' ence and neglect have characterised Anstra- i lian policy in regard to the group. It will be a novel record if the British are outgeneralled coloniaUy, even by our gallant mends the trench, but it is a plain choice between this and a change of policy. Wo cannot expect to hold the territory of another nation from developing and populating, while we are not only refraining from any share in that effort, bnt taking a course calculated positively to discourage British settlement.