POPULATING AUSTRALIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 3

POPULATING AUSTRALIA.

THE JAPANESE MENACE

MATTER. OF LIFE AND DEATH.

(Elec. Teh Copyright—United Press Assn)

(Received July 10, 12.45 p.m.) s Sydney, July 10. Mr. Win, Hughes, tho eec-Prime Minister, in a special article in the Daily Telegraph urging tho need for developing and populating Australia, points out that Japan as a matter of necessity, of life and death, must find an outlet for her surplus population. She believes in the greatness of her destiny, and feels capable of going much further than she has done in national development, and is she to be told that she alone among file nations must not do so? It is liardly for Australia, whose great need is population, to complain if she docs not consent to impose checks on her own population.

If these millions knock at our doors how are wo to deny admittance? he asks. Wo cannot lioee to find shelter behind some treaty. Washington, or another Leap-tic of Nations cannot help us, and it will be to the interest of the greater part of the World that these starving millions should settle in Australia lather than with them. . TheSo millions, with certain death behind them, may never come, but if they.’Mo and find us still a mere handful of people in possession of a great continent, then for us and our cherished ideals it is the end. We must prove ourselves worthy to fence off from an overcrowded world one of the earth’s fairest possessions. A little time is still ours +o prepare by filling our vacant spaces with men and women of our own race, and doall that needs doing to make good our claim to bo a great and fruitful nation.