GERMANS OF THE EAST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 6

GERMANS OF THE EAST.

THE JAPANESE MENACE. AUSTRALIA IN GREAT DANCER. y,y Telcgrapk—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N-Z. Cable Association. (Received May 19. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. 'Lord Northcliffe. at a luncheon given him by the Australian and New Zealand Club at the Hotel Cecil, madv> some interesting references- to the •Japanese question. After alluding to ■the fact that Australia had no arsenals, ho said: 44 Our little brown friends are geting nearer and nearer to Australia. Any person who goes to Japan and realises the true position and the remarkable growth of population will understand that Australia, which 2 9 practically empty, is in very great danger. The Australians tell me, I we will keep them out.’ Australia keeps them out because she lias the protection of the British fleet. Can Americans and Canadians keep them out?*' Lord Northcliffe thundered: 11 No i Columbia and Honolulu are alive with Japanese.** He regarded the Japanese as the Germans of the East, with their propaganda of spying and emigration all over the world, and, they had covetous eyes on the Commonwealth and the Dominions.

THE IMMIGRATION SCHEME. He criticised the immigration scheme. “It is easy,” ho said, “ To put a man in a ship at Tulburv and land him at a ship at Tilbury and land him at Perth, Sydney or Melbourne, anywhere except in Northern Queensland —but there are no preparations to receive him when he arrives such aft in Canada, where tho Canadian Pacific Railway lias made wonderful preparations for his reception- Hence the number of people who return from Australia, and

there ia an alarming number returning. This should be stopped. Everyone who returns to his native village in. England is the worst advertisement Australia can have.”