[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter II In touch with the enemy The White Guard decided to make the camp in Snowdrop Creek the base of all further operations. Part of the stores and ammunition were hidden away thereabouts. A large shelter shed was constructed, with […]

[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter XI Furor Australiensis So Australia, at last, was made to wake up — under sledge-hammer blows: Imperial attempt of legislative interference, annihilation of naval screen, isolation of the invaded territory, debacle of public finance; under such an avalanche of disasters […]

[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter X Pax Britannica The events under review being of contemporary occurrence it is naturally impossible to lay bare the hidden springs which actuated international politics and the workings of which may fully account for the cautious restraint of the Imperial […]

[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter IX Parliament Australia was feverish. But its symptoms were quite different from those manifested in the sister dominions, where the colder climate makes people heavy and pessimistic. Of the chorus of rage and fierce denunciation of Japan which resounded there, […]

[Editor: This is a chapter from the novel The Australian Crisis by C.H. Kirmess.] Chapter VIII Colonial fancies The arrival at Port Darwin of the Japanese deputation, and the public professions of loyalty to the British flag by its members, induced the Imperial Government to communicate, without further delay, the Mikado’s offer, proposing transfer of […]