GERMANS AS COLONISTS
BETTER THAN COLOURED MEN MR SOMERVILLE’S ARGUMENT* Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 24. Mr D. G. Somerville has sent to the Press an explanation that he merely advocated the admission of German immigrants to Australia as part of an argument that more whites must be settled. He admitted the anxiety and danger »of a coloured invasion. The admission of Germans would act as a safety valve for tho congested populations of Central Europe, aggravated by the fact that Germany did not now possess colonies, Germans as colonists in Australia were advocated by several speakers at the Ladies’ Imperial Club during a discussion in which .Mr D. G. Somerville, ex-M.P., who was recently in Australia, described them as wellordered citizens. Colonel Weston Jarvis argued that there were no better ;o!onists than the Germans, and quot?d Cecil Rhodes’s similar view, with ;he proviso that they must be under :he British flag.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 8
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