AUSTRALIA'S AIMS AND FEARS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 5 September 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S AIMS AND FEARS.

ENGLISH PRESS OPINIONS,

Received Sept. 4, 9.7 p.m

LONDON, Sept. 4. The '-Westminster Gazette" says that while Australia welcomes the white fleet, she sympathises with American difficulties on the Pacific coast, and shares in the desire to exclude Asiatic aliens, Australia knows that the Imperial Government must act as trustee of the Empire. However much she dislikes the Japanese Alliance on senti^ mental grounds, Australia cannot say she is injured. Japan also knows that a British colony (vide South Africa) has the fullest rights to exclude foreigners and even British subjects.

The New York "World" doubts whether the ahti-Japanese spirit in Australasia is permanent or sincere, and whether, the obvious difficulties in the way of a Japanese attack upon her coasts will not ultimately dispel the Australian fears.