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FEDERAL MATTERS.During th«- fcui teen years w have hi*J a National Government iu Ails-I*alia tnere has never been /such a plethora ol im|-oi’tant issues a.- confront the people ol this g'*a Continent as at present. There are questions not only or national hue als.i of international importance which n-quirt th'* most careful considera'ion anJ the most delicate handling 1 si we may involve the country and the Empire in greater trouble than we aic now encuuntering. The universal outburst ol patriotism liom one cud ot Australia to the otlipi •in*l flit great sacrifices i’s p*-uj 1** have made in men and iuon -y demand tha' we should go cdowly and• aulioulv. that we may av .id* 'i.ous blunder?, iost 3’ mistakes »r ••riots which might take us years to repair, Take one gnat int-r-nutionai issue as a case in point. Slurlly at let war broke oU' in Europe the Commonwealth ol A us-I*alia and the dominion ot New Zealand equipped and d'sjatch'd ex j-editionary forces to the l'acific 'o raj turc all territory* under 'h tier-man Hag, These txpedit one s* t nuttor the purjiOoc indicated wi h th**lull concurrence ot the Kit sh Government NT* w Zealand soi.d the hist success iu the capture ol Samoa Australia quickly followed by forcibly taking jfOSaCtfsiun of Ge*‘-man New Guinea and the adjuecul islands, hut before Australia and New Zealand had computed the task they had undertaken Japan, us Great Britain's ally. had swooped down and driven the Germans out ol the equatorial islands But when she as in possesion she notified t!ie Bowers it was not her in’enuon to retain them after the war was over (If course, the uiam object in capturing these islands was to d-vA.oy the bates from which the German cruisers iu the Facilic could secure wireless or telegraphic information, coal, provisions or stores. 111 any case, the retention ul Nw Guinea by Germany has alway3 been a so t v point with Australia, and in the same ivay the occupation of Samoa by a liwf\gu power would blt;“ a constant menace to New Zealand. In ordinary warfaie possession of territory usually foLows capture, and were it nut lor the complex con-.1 * ..... u ....... .... 1 1.....
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Beechworth Ovens and Murray Advertiser
Beechworth, Victoria, AU
Sat, Jan 30, 1915
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