Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1918 AUSTRALIANS TO DOCTRINE IN SOUTHERN PACIFIC Demands at Peace Conference Will Concern Same Prerog- ative Exercised by the United States Here W. W. DAVIES Editor, Australian Press ociation. (Written for the United Press.) NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—America dly blame Australia if she ts one of America’s own princi- the Monroe doctrine. This is actly what Australia has done— By \merican » for the South Pacific. There no selfish aggression in the Aus- lian attitude—it is simply a desire rk out her destiny free from essive enemies freé from the shadow of impending trouble h would forever hang over her »s if the Hun were allowed to re-- turn to the Pacific. We do not know that America will re to question Australia’s claim » in a good neighborhood. For s what it amounts to. We do e a burgla irk tl wanton mur r, living at our back door. The German has proved indisputable claim to all these les, and to more. He is a Hun. It little if we are told thatthe irderer has reformed. There is no evidence of reformation yet, save r to repeat the awful crimes patter the years of Germany's ss. The German prom- pronounced by the re of the allies, including resident Wilson, to be vaueless. What evidence have of good conduct, wrung grudg- in the hour of abject defeat, So Australia, happy at last ach out again to peaceful pros- wants no sinister picklehau- to mar her fair horizon. ve said we do not know ca will dispute Australia’s e hope she will whole- dly support it. Australia says ne proven foe “Hands off the Pacific.” She ds in the Pacific which were held by Germany must » back to her maladministra- yuthern She a practically nothing| out of the war. There may be disposition on the part of some that Australia is too small ‘in point of population and in- ence, to merit serious considera- But th s essentially a war in h the rights of, small been vindicated, and altho in e Australia is not a nation, a part of the great empire of tain, in this matter she is almost e position of a small nation ask- t her own person rights shall be guarded. And the Commonwealth one of the earliest participants the has earned a right to consid ion. vith any ideas of aggression or , has proclaimed the Monroe doc-| a thug, much less; we that al hing but another scrap of | s that) nations} She has not fought; Eve will be menaced if ever the German is allowed to go back into these waters. There is a stretch of many thousands of miles of ocean between the west coast of America and China and Japan—from San Francisco to Australia alone is 6,000 miles. There is one way to guarantee that this great sheet of water shall be kept free for commerce. Shut out the | Hun. The alternative is to keep up j}a tremendously cotsly system of po- licing these waters. Is there any choice. 7. Finally, Australia can be at once acquitted of any desire fot ter-| ritorial aggrandizement, because she! doés not necessarily ask that she her-| self shall occupy these islands. She! simply contends that théy shall not go back to Germany. If it can be} shown that they should be taken by some other friendly power, Australia will not object. But Germany, she| contends, must be barred. This, in brief, is Australia’s case against Germany’s return to the Pa- cific. MANNHEIM THROWN INTO. PANIC BY RAIDERS, SAYS (Copyritit) loow | sing! Jup it on tio ser ha cit 40 ig J REPATRIATED BRITISHER LONDON—(By Mail) — “Yes,” said a recently repatriated, wounded British aviator, who had been a pris- oner in Germany since January, 1917, “TI was in Mannheim during two night} raids. It was during the latter part |of 1917. Oh, they had the wind up; | all right, even then. We wondered | | what was happening when we first heard the sirens and guns start. Our) | orderlies just vanished. There was) a big chemical factory not far from) our camp. Several bombs must have} hit it fair and square. In the morn-| ing when we looked out there was) not much left of it. “Nothing camé on us either time. | — | Fritz noticed that this hospital camp | sé tain_ was a safe spot, and built a barracks next door, and put down a gun test- ing station on the other side. “It was wonderful how our fellows | managed to pick out the factories. | The town itself was not damaged at all. When we left Mannheim we marched right thru the town, and tho |I saw several factories in ruins, I | didn’t see a single private house that | had been hit.” A Colstreamer who had been in | Essen during the raids on Krupps spoke of the frenzied panic that pre- vailed, and told how a mob of Ger- mans, men and women, rushed into the hospital where the wounded pris- oners were lying. They broke into | the wards and fiercely threatened the nder. Most of her men=the very | English. ower of Australia, free volunteers; His comrade, in the next cot, they the cause of right, fought in the| actually pulled out on the floor, and hopeless campaign at Gallipoli. Of] itimping on thé helpless man, perma- her 400,000 enlistments, more than) 0,000 lie dead in alien lands. She d no territorial interest in fighting | e Tur It was but her willing, | nd glad contribution to the battle of; ht against wrong. And after tens of thousands had been slain at Gal-| poli, no word of reproach was heard Australia itself. I mention this mpaign merely to show that Aus- s a tight to be heard. her case:: 1. The islands in the Pacific are} pable of great development in the) ht hands. They were never prop-j erly developed by Germany, but were} nismanaged as. stragetic points in| of conflict. Se quickly did the| \ustralians and New Zealanders} descend on them however, that they cre wrested from G many before) could use them as bases to de-| troy trade. j i case nently injured his spine. This repatriated Englishtian also had much to tell of the gtéat mate- rial damage Wrought by the British bombers, and the far-reaching moral! effects produced on the civil poptilace : in Germany. oS ge JAPANESE STATESMAN BELIEVES IN LEAGUE TOKIO—Belief that a League of Nations will be achieved was express- ed by Baron Takahashi, the Japanese minister for finance, at a dinner given by the Bankers’ club given in honor of the new Japanese cabinet. The minister called attention to the The German administration of! activities of American financiers to » islands in the Pacific reveals a, prepare for the post-war period, “thu: 1 of cruefty to natives a rec-]conforming to their splendid national of utter failure to colonize suc-- fully. | If these islands ‘were to go k to Germany they would be used | base of possible naval opera-} It is impossible to keep under trict surveillance the operations of power on such remote waters. Even vhile protesting the most peaceful ntions Germany might be send- submarines in parts of these there to start at a given npaign of frightfulness, lict isles 7 aut ‘inst peaceful commerce such as) have witnessed during the past; ir years. i !. One of these islands, the Ger- portion of New Guinea, is with 30 miles of the mainland of Aus lia. The coastline of what was German New Guinea is made up ch would be admirable as a base U-boat operations. | Australia, a large country, but ely populated, has but limited incial resources. With her popu- of only 5,000,000 souls, she ot afford the tremendous finan- outlay that a policy of c ce against such a potential er would entail. Nor should she ked She, like other small com-| ities, has won with her bloed im- ty from the spectre of war, Will) immunity be denied her? ©. America in common with Aus- ‘a, has an interest in keepnig the ‘acific free from the German, The ; routes from America to the “ev East, from America to Australia, i 2s of small bays and inlets) # to face such an exepndit| § development, and urged Japanes business and financial men to work put a plan of co-qperation which would advance Japan’s interests. a LIEUT. H. T. 0. WALKER Lieut. H. T, O. Walker of the royal navy, Who was & herd of thé famous British naval attack on Zeebrugge. Lieutenant Walker, Who W cer of H. 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