Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
FOR DEFENSE OF
COMMON W EALTH
YOUNG AUSTRALIANS TO BE
TRAINED FOR ARMY
Former Residents of Flowery Kingdom
Have Much to Complain of in
Antipodes-CapitaI Still
in Doubt

| MELBOURNE, Sept. 10.-Before en-
| barking on any of the projects fol
modified conscription" or universal
training" for the defense of the CON-
monwealth, the Australian government
| is considering the foundation of all
national defense-the physical training
of all the children Of this young do
minion.
The labor government began, and its
successors are to carry to fruition, a
great scheme which will put every girl
and boy in Australia up to the age of
AZ or IA through a course of carefully
graded physical training. In the case
of girls this training is intended to
confer the ordinary benefits of health,
sound development and hardness. In
the case of boys, however it is in
tended to form the basis on which more
technical training in senior cadet corps,
and later in militia infantry and light
horse corps can be built
The scheme has received the gen.
eraf approval of the Deakin-Coo gov
ernment. For an expenditure of $120,
900, spread over three years, it will
provide Australia with body OF
physical training teachers and experts,
working under federal control, and
capable of instructing hundreds of
thousands of Australian children each
week
The machinery is to include perma-
nent training centers for instructors
and school teachers in each of the six
states. The coordination of the sys-
TEN of medical inspection of children
now being introduced into government
schools, with the national physical
training system, is also proposed. The
scheme is we'll received by the people,
for they have horror of any possible
yellow domination.
Mobility First Essential
Compulsory military training is to be
part of the federal ministry's defense
policy, but it is not to destroy the ex-
listing militia system nor to render
fruitless the attempts which are be-
ing made to bring real organization
into the Australian military system.
The point which will be the necessity of
keeping the core of the army-namely,
the troops for the time being, in most
active training-in thoroughly organ
lied and really mobile condition
The mere existence of 100000 or 2O0,-
900 men, able to use the rifle, to drill
and to maneuver, will be no sure
guarantee against an invader Highly
trained officers will be needed, and pro-
vision for a military college is, there
fore, advisable. Quick mobilization
and concentration will have to be pos
sible, and a heavy task awaits staff
and intelligence officers in developing
the plans prepared, or being prepared,
for the present force, so they may
equip the new army as real weapon
of war. Australia is vulnerable at
points very remote from one another,
and mobility is the first essential in her
land forces
The first Chinese consul general has
arrived in the commonwealth. At
Sydney Mr.. Liam Lun Hsun was warm
ly welcomed by his compatriots, and
at banquet given in his honor some
plain speaking was indulged in by rep
resentative Chinese residents which
have given Australians food for
thought. Advantage was taken of the
opportunity to ventilate the views of
the colony on the hardships and disa-
bilities which, in their view, individ-
uals of their nation labor under in
Australia. Mr. Ping Nam, president OF
the Chinese Merchants society, assert
ed that any future negotiations be-
tween China and the commonwealth
would have to be conducted on differ
ent lines from those that had prevailed
in the past.
Chinese Dissatisfied
Commercial relations with China will,
in his opinion, be out of the question
if Australia is going to adopt sweep
ing and indiscriminate legislation
against the Chinese or, in upholding
that legislation, use language which
is insulting to Chinese as Chinese" "
The consul general was, of course,
careful not to commit himself, al
though he seems to have indorsed Ping
Mans statement that while the Chi
nese acquiesced in Australia's resolve
to prohibit an inflow of cheap ORR
entail labor they resented the enforce
ment of that policy by means of regu-
lations such as finger print identifiea-
ton, which they regard as humiliating
TO their race.
Lord Rosebery affirmed at the ban
quet to the imperial press delegates
in London last June that the perna-
nent sport of Australia threatened to
become the hunting for the federal
capital" The hunt. says the AUS
tralasian, has certainly covered a good
deal of country already, and, appar-
emily, has still a long way to go be-
fore the quarry is run down. The
parliamentary park appeared at one
time to be on the right scent, for Dali
getty seemed very likely country in
deed; but it was whisked off towards
Yass- Canberra and the waters Of the