COUNT MORNER'S WARNING.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 1271, 12 February 1910, Page 3

COUNT MORNER'S WARNING.

AN EXPLANATION. [Pbbbs Association—Coptbight.] Sydney, Feib. 11. Count Morner, the Swedish ConsulGeneral, states that the extract from the Bpeech of Mr. Holman, M.L.A., of the Labour Party, wassent as a supplement to a previous report in which he stated that the Australian. Governments had no responsibility whatever in the propaganda made by the irresponsible' Immigration League of Australia; that there were different opinions prevailing in Australia relating to the immigration question; and that a prominent political party was opposed to the movement. He claims that he acted only fairly in giving the opinion of the minority. Beferring to press criticisms, Count Morner says it would have been fairer to have awaited until in possession of the exact text of the warning he is supposed to "have given. He did not mind being criticised for what he had done or stated, but ho objected to being criticised for what he had not done. At present he knew as little about the matter as his critics did. It would have been more dignified if the Australian press if it had produced the corpus delicti before trying to makeb him responsible for the foreign policy of two of the oldest and most educated kingdoms of the world.