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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12768, 9 February 1910, Page 4

The Northern. Territory is not, politically speaking, part of Australia j it is a Grown Colony, belonging to: the Imperial Government, which tor the sake of convenience has arranged with South Australia to administer it. The Imperial Government may, if it choose, terminate this arrangement, and throw the Territory open to coloured immigration at any. time. And, somehow, Crown colonies are mostly peopled by coloured folk. The Northern Territory: is empty and defenceless, and holds out a cordial invitation to attack. Nothing would be easier- than for, say, Japa^to-land several army corps there, and to hide them in the vast terntory-foux times larger than New Zealand—lwfore they were discovered. The Territory's possibilities as a base for attack on Australia are therefore evident, and a foreign footing on _the Continent spells danger to this. Dominion also.. The Northern Territory wants to be made a political part of Australia, it wants filling with ,» white population, and its coasts want ample defence.— "Wanganui Hera,ld." ,