BRITAIN AND THE PACIFIC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 7

BRITAIN AND THE PACIFIC

LOST OPPORTUNITIES. fmi twiwiihmi —Wflpxuh.—Copyright Htveivpd June 24 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, June 24. . The Herald, referring to the annexation of Wallace and Futuna Islands, has lh*» following:—“lt is said'with truth that in the Pacific we hare lost Joolholo alter foothold. Mere than half the groups of Oceania, first evangelised by Hri'ish missionaries, have fallen into foreign hands. Tonga is now the only other protectorate of importance, and there are many who believe that Hritoin'a delay in annexing this group may be darger.Kis, and the wisest policy wo*t!d be to hoist the flag at once. If those great colonial imperialists. Sir George Grey and Sir Henry Park*’.*, had had their way the British Bag might today be flying across the Pacific from east to west, for all those islands might have been ours.”