New-York tribune., 1908-08-21
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London, Aug 2I-The London morning news
papers give great prominence TO reports OF the
American fleets reception in Australia Edi-
torially they express the fullest satisfaction at
the warmth and briIliance Of the welcome ac-
corded The visitors. The Chronicle says;
That the American sailors will take Australia
by storm is certain. They have done 1t already;
they have conquered before they came. This
cordial determination is very gratifying to this
country. where the maintenance of the most
friendly relations with the American people and
government is object of universal desire and
axiom of our policy
The Morning Post" remarks that the visit
will encourage Australian statesmen TO promote
the naval policy which they have at heart
namely. the creation Cf an Australian navy,
which The Post says. hitherto has met with
great obstruction from the home government,
which Is anxious to impose the colonies the
duty of gubsidizing the British navy"
Referring 10 the feeling of enthusiasm shown
by Australia the ground of sympathy between
the United States and Australia for the exclu-
sion of Asiatics, The Post" declines TO believe
that there is any real resentment in Asia at the
adoption by AngIo-Sax of this additionally
Asiatic principle, and says:
The only real danger Of active enmity arising
comes from the reckless assertion sun some
times made in this country that the Brltlsh
policy is to insist upon the open door in the
East while barring the door in the colonies
In conclusion The Post says:
The thronging thousands who watched the en-
try of the American armada cannot fail to be
dreaming of the day when the finest harbOr in
the southern hemisphere Will again be the base,
and its shores the home, of a British fleet dom-
mating the Pacific
The Daily Graphic" under the caption The
Big Stick Afoat,' says:
II is not surprising that the American sailors
find a warm welcome in a British port, but the
present welcome is vitalized by special Circum
stances notably by the fine performance OF
SDerry's feet in the around-the-w world voyage,
and by certain community interests and aspira-
tions in Pacific politics.
The American fleet is a symbol. 1t embodles
the determination of the white man To keep
what he has got the shores OF the Pacific;
il is Roosevelt's contribution to the cry for
white America and a white Australia.
Discreet attempts have been made TO veil THIS
aspect of the demonstration. but they cannot
impose on the citizens of California and British
Columbia and Australia to whom the yellow
peril is a very real peril indeed.
The phenomenal festivities at Sydney yester-
day show how deeply Englishmen in the Pacific
feel in this matter. and in this sense they have
a grave significance for British statesmen
A dispatch 10 THE Times from Sydney says:
Australia's first sight of modern battleships
proved even more impressive than expected, eS-
necially 10 federal members, many of whom de-
rIared that the spectacle was such TO inspire
fbe earnest hope that Australia may ere long
nossess if not a similar fleet at least a squadron
worthy to be counted an integral factor in
imperial defence