When Lan's valuable news was in front of him, Morrison was a standard nail cutter

In order to prepare this press release about the China Industrial Exhibition, Morrison worked almost all afternoon, and by the time he finally finished the manuscript, it was already dark, and he had not even eaten lunch.

Packing the manuscript into his briefcase, Morrison left his room and ordered a menu from the hotel's duty manager, although the hotel did have a restaurant. But Morrison didn't plan to eat in the restaurant, he told the manager on duty. Ask someone to have all the food he ordered delivered to his guest room. He will eat in his room.

Half an hour later, a waiter prepared all the dishes, but there weren't many dishes, just a grilled steak, a plate of vegetable salad, a croissant, and some dessert and fruit after the meal.

After the waiter left the room and closed the door, Morrison sat down at the table, tied a napkin, and picked up a knife and fork. Net, resting his fork on the steak, suddenly remembered something, so he hurriedly got up, went to the corner, turned on the switch of the tube radio that rested beside the desk, and turned it to the channel of the "Voice of the Far East", and then walked back to the table, sat down in his chair, and began his dinner.

Chinese As a correspondent in China, Morrison has now developed the habit of listening to Chinese broadcasts on time, not only to the Chinese versions, but also to the Cantonese and Hokkien dialect versions of the newscasts, the latter two dialect broadcasts are programs set up by the Voice of the Far East radio station to take care of the Chinese immigrants in Nanyang, and Morrison often has to go to the south to cover news. He also wants to practice his listening.

"According to the latest news from the Paris Telegraph, the mutiny in the city of Mogilev, which was born in the military command center of the Russian front, has now been quelled, and similar to the revolution in Petrograd, the city of Mogilev is now in fact under the joint control of the Duma Committee and the Soviets, and the Petrograd Provisional Government has sent a special envoy to Mogilev to take over power.

At the same time, according to a telegram taken in Moscow, Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire is now stationed in Moscow, and declared Moscow a temporary capital, according to a military order signed by the Tsar, all Russian reserve forces stationed in Central Asia and the Far East will be put on maximum alert, and Yibei received an order that these troops will be immediately transferred to Moscow, under the direct command of the Tsar, and ready to hold Moscow. If Moscow could be held, the next move of the tsarist army would be a counter-offensive on Petrograd. The tsar has appointed several new generals, including a Chinese.

Given the sharp deterioration of the current situation in Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China advises Chinese citizens not to travel to Russia in the near future, and Chinese citizens who are already in Russia do not need to panic, please try to keep in touch with each other and help if needed. You can go to the Chinese consulates in Russia for help. At present, there are 15 Chinese consulates in Russia, which are located in ".

According to a telegram from London, the dispute between the Empire of Japan and the Dominion of Australia has now come to an end under the mediation of the British Government, and the two sides have formally reached an agreement under which the Japanese and Australian armies will occupy parts of the German colony of New Guinea in accordance with the current Line of Actual Control. The Japanese-controlled zone is located in the north, and the Australian-controlled zone is located in the south.

However, after the agreement was reached, the Japanese ambassador to London told reporters that the Japanese Government's stand would not waver, and that the results of the Japanese army's bloody struggle would not be handed over to Australia, and that unless the international community allowed New Guinea to become an independent country, the Japanese army would be stationed on the island for a long time.

At the same time, the federal government of the Dominion of Australia expressed a similar position, insisting that Japan's interests were not in New Guinea and that Japan's war against Germany should be motivated by international morality. Rather than for the purpose of occupying German possessions, if the Japanese Government insisted on this, it would undoubtedly be saying that the Allies were fighting against Germany for the sake of the colonies, which was obviously not true, and that the Australian Dominion Government was also of the view that the British Government would ultimately decide on the final ownership of the former German possessions in New Guinea.

On the other hand, the Japanese Government has always insisted that a single country has no right to decide on the ownership of the former German colonies, and that this decision should be in the hands of an international organization, and some people in the Japanese Government also believe that the authority of this international organization cannot be lower than that of the "Far East Peace Commission."

Let us now recall the course of the dispute between the Empire of Japan and the Dominion of Australia over the German possessions in New Guinea. This area was occupied by two separate teams a year ago.

New Guinea is located at the western tip of the East Indies. It is part of the East Indies, with a total area of more than 800,000 square kilometers, it is the largest island in the South Sea Islands, and the second largest island in the world, larger than the area of Borneo Zhejiang, before the outbreak of the European War, the island was divided into three parts in the administrative division, the west was controlled by the Dutch East Indian colonial authorities, and the east was occupied by Britain and Germany respectively, the British occupied the southeast, Germany occupied the northeast, and the German territory covered an area of about 150,000 square kilometers. The target of the attack, the Japanese and the Australian troops, attacked the German possessions almost simultaneously and divided them equally.

Over the past year, the governments of Japan and Australia have engaged in a series of diplomatic actions, including armed conflicts, over who should host the German possessions in New Guinea. Just last month, the Japanese army and the Australian army were in the local Yi Xun book to dry Xun Shan's different body clams

There have been fierce firefights in the valley. conflict. Both sides used heavy weapons, including the Shan Cannon, and each suffered some casualties, and the armed conflict was also the most violent armed conflict between the Japanese and Australian armies, and it once shook the unity and strategy of the Allies in the Far East.

In order to resolve the issue of German possessions in New Guinea, both Japan and Australia sought help from the international community, with Australia relying on the support of the British Empire, while Japan referred the issue to the Far East Peace Commission on the pretext that New Guinea should be geographically Asianized. Hearing this, Morrison stopped his knife and fork, brought the briefcase over, put it at his feet, and then pulled out a world geographical atlas from it. and a map of the world, which I took in my hand and looked at. I studied Katagen.

"Why is Japan unwilling to hand over all of New Guinea to Australia as it has been verbally agreed? Is the Japanese government really planning to focus its strategy on the Pacific and Southeast Asia? Did the Japanese government not hesitate to offend the British Empire for this? ”

It is no wonder that Morrison has this question, since we, year, month, day after the official establishment of the Australian federal government, Australia has basically been out of the direct control of the British Empire, although Australia is still a dominion of the British Empire, but in fact, the power of this dominion is almost the same as an independent country, even the land defense is also hosted by the Australian federal government, but as an important member of the British Empire, it is also an important link in the colonial economic chain of the empire, The British government is afraid that it will not sit idly by and watch as a threat to Australia's security.

The island of New Guinea is just north of Australia. With such a strategic point so close to each other, how could the British government allow other countries to control it? The reason why the German colonies there became the first target of the Entente attack was precisely to relieve Australia of the German threat.

But now. The fact that the Japanese government wants to entrust a territory of more than 50,000 square kilometers on the island of New Guinea is simply a provocation to British interests?

Morrison took out the wrong pen and drew a circle around the location of the island of New Guinea on that map of the world, and then a circle around the location of the Japanese archipelago. and connect the two circles with a dotted line. Then, the Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands, the former German colonies in the Pacific Ocean occupied by Japan, were circled in pencil and connected with the islands of New Guinea and the Japanese archipelago with dotted lines, respectively. A huge triangle has appeared on the map.

Morrison took out a ruler and measured the three dotted lines on the map, and he now that if the Mariana Islands were used as a naval base, then the sailing time required for the naval fleet to sail from here to the Japanese archipelago in the north or to the island of New Guinea in the south.

More importantly, on these routes, except for a few islands, there is no land barrier at all, and the naval fleet can sail with confidence. You don't have to worry about revealing your whereabouts. Even with airplanes, it is difficult to resemble the Japanese fleet in the vast sea.

The only obstacle is Guam, which is now occupied by the United States and is a supply depot for the United States Navy, but compared to the Philippines, Guam is not really taken seriously by the United States Navy. The Japanese fleet probably doesn't have to care about the small number of U.S. ** ships there.

"It seems, after the loss of the island of Taiwan. The Japanese Empire turned its attention to the island of New Guinea. ”

Morrison set the map aside, then picked up the geographical atlas and flipped through it, studying the situation on the island of New Guinea, obviously. There is simply a wild area, except for some cannibals, there are almost no human settlements, although Germany does not pay much attention to the opening of New Guinea, but for the hungry Japan, New Guinea seems to be very attractive, and compared to Manchuria, Taiwan, there is no strong opponent near New Guinea, although there is an Australia in the south, but Australia is still an agricultural country, industrial output value is hardly worth mentioning, the reason why it was not threatened by a strong enemy before, It's all because of the relative isolation of the location.

But if Japan takes control of the island of New Guinea. Then the strategic environment facing Australia will change drastically, no matter how bad Japan is, it also defeated the Russian Empire in that year, although Japan also suffered a heavy blow in the Sino-Japanese War, but as long as Japan is given the time to run, the Japanese Empire may not be able to ease up.

Once the Japanese Empire eased up, then. New Guinea would become the Imperial Japanese Empire's extension to Australia.

Thinking of this, Morrison could no longer maintain a calm mind, and he immediately decided to write another report, as an Australian citizen, to remind Australians that if Australia could not solve the problem of the ownership of the island of New Guinea, then for Australians, the danger was imminent, and that the Russian Empire had suffered this loss back then, and Australia could not repeat the mistakes of the past, and the greed of the Japanese must be nipped in the bud. The ambitions of the Japanese Empire must be curbed.

But the question is not the position of the Australians, the question is, what is the position of other countries? For Asia, where "Pan-Asianism" is rapidly emerging, Australia is, after all, a white man's land, and now this white country is still implementing discriminatory immigration policies against Asian immigrants, which is the so-called "White Australianism"

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