The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-22
Danger Spots.

Danger spots.
when there are dangerous places on
railroads red flag Ia hung out In day.
time and red lantern at night TO warn
moving trains TO be careful II the
same practice was followed BY nations
there would be many danger signals
displayed in the Pacific ocean. Japan
Is feared as the trouble maker.
At the beginning OF the great war
Japan not only took over shantung, the
richest part of China. but also seized
the Caroline and Marshall islands
These islands and all other German
islands north OF the equator, were con-
firmed to Japan by the peace confer
ence. German islands south Of the
equator were given over 10 Australia
because Of juxtAposltion. Many Of these
Islands are large and rich and sparsely
populated How to defend them against
Japanese aggression Is Australias
problem.
Australia 10 at once the largest island
and the smallest continent on the globe,
with a population OF only 5000, 0o0 while
Japan has So 900, 600 or 10000 600 people,
a great and rapidly growing navy, and
large army. Japan protests that she is
not seeking territorial extension, but
she insists on racial and economic
equality, which would permit her to
trade anywhere in the Pacific, and spill
her surplus population anywhere that
vacant land may be found This does
proud people, and who insist that Aus
tralla is white mans country and
must remain so. There Is room for
100, 900, 900 people and Australia wants
immigration. but II must be the right
sort. No .colored races can come In.
This was made very clear by Premier
Hughes at the peace conference. and
he spoke for his people.
Australia was not settled BY convicts,
as Is sometimes asserted. Penal colonies
were established In Botany Bay now
New South Wales. ana Van Dieman's
land. but the mainland was settled by
intrepid immigrants, Just as this coun-
try was settled. In 1SI6, because Of the
potato blight. 5000 Scotch families from
the Hebrides--lslands off the coast OF
Scotland--were sent to Australia. which
then as now was land OF plenty. From
this stock sprang the great fighters that
Australia sent to France and Belgium.
And the convicts were not a bad sort.
They were not criminals. Women and
children who snatched an apple
from a fruit stand or a loaf Of bread
from a bakers shop we're transported
on conviction as punishment. The
young man who induced a sweetheart
to run away and marry him could not
be punished for this offense. but he
was transported for taking the young
woman's clothes. which the law held
belonged TO her father. No matter who
were their ancestors. the Austria
lians are proud people, and they mean
TO keep their country white mans
country at all hazards. This they can
not do with their handful OF population
They can not defend their own coasts
without assistance. They occupy an
exposed position thousands OF miles
from England, and they are not only
an outpost OF Western civilization, but
of Christianity as well
Japan has been pouring her surplus
New Hebrides. q coyey OF islands off
the coast Of Australia, and building up
q menace to the mainland. Australians
are apprehensive. At their very door
stands Southern Asia, where two-thirds
of the worlds population IL found. all
colored races and paEans, The inhabi-
tants OF the New Hebrides are a Pap
ILa1a
civilized--and these are falling an easy
prey to the superior intelligence OF the
Nipponese. what is worse and more
terrifying to contemplate, II Japan sue.
ceeds in training and arming the Chi
nese and prepsrinS them for modern
warfare. they can overpn the earth by
mere force OF numbers
Australian publlcists are predicting
another great world war real Arma-
geddon, between the white and colored |
races as soon as China is fully awake. |
European and American pubnciSts |
have been doing the same propheSying |
.or the past fifty years. Hence the |
cause OF Australia Is the con- |
Germ Of the white races OF the earth.
Hon. W. A. watts, treasurer Of Aus
tralia, and who during the absence OF |
Hughes at the peace conference acted |
as premier and virtually as despot OF |
Australia, is in England At present, |
bravely endeavoring to impress upon
the British government the Importance !
OF assisting Australia in keeping out
the colored races on any pretense. and
assisting Australia in holding It's de-
Tendencies inviolate for the white races
He is really alarmed and so are his
countrymen. They believe the colored
races are a menace % white and Chris
tan civilization.