The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-21
ENGLAND PLANS
 FOR DEFENSE
DEFENSE CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED FOR ENGLAND AND
 HER ISLAND COMMONS.
Parliamentary Committee Pays Visit to the Dominions and Will Submit Its Report.

London, April 20-Plans for de- fense conference of Great Britain and her dominions are rapidly assuming form, and will be complete when the consent of Canada is gained Aus traia and New Zealand have already announced their desire for such conference and since the problem Of the Pacific will be the chief topic considered by the meeting, it is be- lieved that Canada will join the other dominions.
 As the result of the trip which Parliamentary committee made 10 the dominions. it was found that Australian and New Zealand states men believe firmly that the problem of the coming decade will be the maintenance of supremacy for the white race in the Pacific. It was pointed out to the committee that Japan is making preparations to de- yelop trade and emigration towards the antipodes and that there is a constant flow of Chinese to the is- lands of the Pacific France has aI- ready largely increased her steam' ship facilities with these islands, and Germany. Holland and the United States also are active in the same regions.
 The determination of the govern melt to brin gabout the conference has been increased by reports from Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, who has been advising the Commonwealth government on naval matters, and Sir Ian Hamilton Inspector General of Oversea forces. It has not yet been decided whether the conference will be held in London Canada or Australia, but the idea is growing, and when the meeting is finally he'd ii is likely that all of the British do- minions will have delegates present. Australia and New Zealand have not taken kindly to the suggestion made by Wnstin Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in his speech introducing the naval estimates, that the safety of those two countries was secured by the Anglo-Japanese alli- ance. William Ferguson Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, led an attack on the First Lord in a re- cent speech at Grevmouth in which he said he did not believe the alliance had secured the safety of the British nominations in the antipodes.
 IDrsi f the Commonwealth of Australia, who stated the case for the Dominions at greater leangth, said:
 We are told by Imperial states men that the Pacific is being made safe and secure, not by the might and the majesty of the British fleet, but by the Anglo-Japanese alliance. That raises for Australia very serious question. l hope that Australia will always be on friendly terms with Jap- an and get closer to her in the rela- tions of trade and commerce and the peaceful acts of civilization, and that tbe treaty will continue in its pres ent form, for 1 believe it to be great power for peace; but when Australia is asked to rely on the AngloJapan- csc treaty for the defense of the Pac- fife a very serious situation is created. Japan is a notion whose people Aus tralia does not admit to her shores. White Austrailia," ideas must be de tended at all costs as a cardinal prin- ciple of Australian political belief Japanese civilization differs radically from that of Australia, which is com pelled to see no mixing of races in her territory
 "Whilst it is true, as Mir, Churchill said, that the naval forces should be concentrated under a united com mand on the chief theatres of opera tions, it should not be forgotten that