Queensland, actually named Japan, and declared that if Australia did not increase her population the Japanese would spill-over and the younger of the present generation would see themselves ruled by Japanese. Several of the leading dailies have been publishing syndicated contributions the obvious purpose of which has been to create public resentment against the employment of indented Japanese in connexion with the pearling industry. To those who know the conditions of cosmopolitan Thursday Island, the articles rank no higher than the Jacobs' stories of Wapping; but to the generally unsophisticated Australian, who only knows the few crowded acres of the extreme south, there is material for much mysterious innuendo, with its concomitant fears. The politicians have helped the newspaper stunts; and. now find themselves being asked to formulate an Australian naval defence policy to meet the dangers which, if not imaginary, should certainly have not been so publicly canvassed. statements! has been that again Possibly ope of the most unhelpful made by the Premier of South Australia, Sir Thomas Barwell, who will insist upon saying that the tropical belt of Australia must be developed with the help of coloured labour. He is curiously insistent upon this point, though at the same time he claims that he is a strong White Australian who is misunderstood. It is hardly necessary to say that from his angle, also, he encourages the anti-Japanese scare.
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