EMPIRE MATTERS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6254, 25 June 1921, Page 2

EMPIRE MATTERS

MOTHERLAND AND DOMINIONS PROTECTION AGAINST JAPAN. FRENCH PRESS COMMENTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) Received 9.3 Q a.m.) LONDON, June 24. Tho Petit- Parsien refers to the exaggerated comments of oilier newspapers regarding the imperial Conference and particularly tho Matin’s suggestion that tli© British colonial empire is on the way tb collapse. It »ays; ■■The reality is that evolution i.s proceeding in the British empire -which occurs in all countries with raid colonial possessions. Canada. Australia, and New /Gxdaud aharo with tho United States a profound aversion to yellow im-f migrants, and condder that in the contingency of their needing protection again Japan the American flee» and, a rmy will ho aWe to give, more immed-i into protection than Britain. The id«a of Britain and the United States ever rtuning Into conflict is monstrous.”