DREAD OF AN EXPLOSION.
FOSTER FRASER INTERVIEWED.
By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright.
y ' . Perth, August 18. Mr. . John Foster ' Eraser, the wellknown English journalist, arrived -by. the P. and 0. steamer Mor.ea to-day:-.; ' .■; ■
In the course .of ' an interview," Mr. Frascr stated that he would stay-in .Australia till the British Parli&hiek£ ; met in January. He intended -tQiopposfii Mr. J. Ramsay Mac Donald (Labour .member for Leicester) at the-next elecUsm JL-One of the subjects calling for inquiry,, was female suffrage,, which he favoured,: and :he ' was sure it would come • in'- 1 England one of these days. w : Referring to European affairs,- Mr. Fraser said that, as things now stood, there was a constant dread of an explosion. The first scare-was a , struggle) between Britain and Germany/for "sea supremacy, then the Balkans trouble); and there was also bound to"bo trouble in Austria-Hungary when the -old"'Emperor died. He was not-sure that the explosion would originate in one , of t the big Powers ; more ; likely it would be: the Balkans dispute. .- -" V.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14143, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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