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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 72

Mr McKenzie, the “Daily Mail” correspondent in the Russo-Japanese war, declares, as one having authority, that if Australia will not throw open its unpeopled northern territories, Japan will insist upon a free entry. Many months ago a like assertion was published on the authority of a Japanese Minister in London. Japanese naval officers before the war declared that a day of reckoning with Australia for its exclusiveness would come. That day (says the “British Australasian”) is not unlikely to come with the declaration of peace, as it will he the day the English-Japan-ese alliance is extended. For its renewal the British press is already clamouring. Mr Chamberlain has advocated it, and apparently Japan is willing. Australia long ago determined on the exclusion of Chinese, not so much, the late Sir Henry Parkes contended, because of their vices or cheapness, as of their natural inability to intermix by marriage and otherwise, or to become citizens of an English-speaking community. Are the Japanese placed on the same plane?