A LONGING EYE ON AUSTRALIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3564, 2 July 1912, Page 6

A LONGING EYE ON AUSTRALIA.

TO HAVE A HAPPY PEOPLE. JAPAN AND THE KEY TO THE PACIFIC. WHY GERMANY AND ENGLAND SHOULD NOT QUARREL. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, June 30. Mr Hogie, cf Sydney, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, deals with the growing Japanese power, and says that Japanisation of China will eventually make Japan mistress of the East- He emphasises Australia’s vulnerability, and adds that any Power holding Australia holds the key to South Africa. He instances the recent Japanese Antarctic expedition, which he describes as merely part of a design to spy out Parifio territory. Australian opinion was that in the event of an Anglo-German war Japan would take decisive action in the South Pacific. The keeping of Australia concerned not merely Britain, but also the United States and European Powers, and this consideration alone ought to- keep Germany from quarrelling with Britain or Britain from thwarting Germany’s African expansion.