WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 July 1923, Page 7

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

MR. HUGHES ON JAPANESE MENACE. SYDNEY, July 10. Mr. Hughes, in a special article In the! "Daily Telegraph" urging thtn?ed for developing and populating Australia, points out that Japan, as a natter of necessity of life and death, must find an ..outlet for her surplus population. " She believes in the irreatness of her destiny and feels capable of going much further than slic- has done in national development ind is she to be told that she alone iniong the nations must not do so \- It Is hardly for Australia, whose groat need is population-, to complain if she toes not consent to impose chee'>her own population. If these million:* !;nock at our door, how are we f: Jeny them admittance ? Wo canno' [lope to find shelter behind Ri;«mi treaty of Washington. "'Another League of Nations cannot help us, and i(j will be to the interest of the greater part of the woriu that these starving millions should settle in Australia rather than wi'them. These millions, with certain ileath behind them, may never comw but if they do and find us still a, mere handful of people in possession or a [rrcat continent, then for us and out cherished ideals it i.s the end. We must prove ourselves worthy to fenceoff from ,in overcrowded world one of Lhe earth's fairest possessions. A little time is still ours to prepare by filling our vacanj. spaces with men and women of our own race, and to do all that needs doing to make good our claim to a great: and fruitful continent."