THURSDAY ISLAND DANGER.
DOMINATION OF JAPANESE.
FEDERAL CONTROL URGED.
A. and N-Z. SYDNEY. March 21. The Sydney Daily Telegraph, in a special article dealing with the recent labour troubles among the Japanese at Thursday Island, when the Japanese enforced their demands for increased wages, declares that the Japanese practically rule the island, and that the position is fraught with future danger, and is so delicate from an international standpoint that frank discussion is difficult. The article attributes the trouble to want of sufficient policing and the supineness of the Federal interest, and urges that the only remedy will be the transfer of the present nominal control of the island by the Queensland Government to the Commonwealth Government. It is pointed out that Thursday Island is the key to Torres Strait, and a strategic point of such importance that it should receive careful consideration primarily from the defence standpoint.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18355, 22 March 1923, Page 7
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