[Editor: This advertisement for the serial story of The Coloured Conquest (1904) was published in the Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 26 July 1904. The advertisement includes an outline of the story.]
‘The Coloured Conquest.’
A Story of
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
(By “RATA”)
will commence in the
“EXAMINER”
Next Week. Next Week
“THE COLOURED CONQUEST” deals with the overwhelming of the WHITE NATIONS of the world by the COLOURED.
It tells HOW THE JAPANESE CAME TO AUSTRALIA — tells what the people of this country did when they realised that the Japanese were actually on their way here in such invincible force that it would be madness to oppose their landing; tells how Australians cursed their folly in neglecting defence precautions, particularly in respect of the Imperial Navy, which, owing to poor contributions of the Colonies, and the increasing burdens of the British taxpayer, was not kept at the required strength.
THE WILD SCENES IN SYDNEY during the days and nights immediately preceding the landing of the Japanese are graphically described.
One of the most effective portions of the story, however, is that which relates what took place after the Japanese landed. THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE WHITES BY THEIR BROWN MASTERS provides the writer with many incidents which, though presented in a natural — even restrained — manner, must necessarily excite the mind of the reader.
HOW THE WHITE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA FARED under a system arranged in Tokio long before the invasion is set out in several of the most enthralling chapters.
THE LOVE STORY of Frank Danton and Mabel Graham runs through “THE COLOURED CONQUEST,” and will certainly appeal strongly to all.
The story opens in 1903 with the visit of the Japanese squadron to Sydney (before the commencement of the Russo-Japanese war). Frank and Mabel are engaged, but owing to various causes, more or less associated with the Japanese, they become estranged.
During the war with Russia several Japanese officers visit Australia. One of these (Major Matte Yoko) becomes infatuated with Mabel, and determines to possess her — not as his wife, but as White men possess the women of his country, he explains (when under the influence of wine) to a group of Europeans. Danton is present and knocks him down. Mabel appears on the scene just as Major Matte Yoko rises. She hears him threaten to kill Danton at some future time, and also hears him, as he leaves, declare that he will one day be her master.
Danton has a good friend in a young Japanese Naval officer, Taksuma, who is also a friend of Mabel’s family. Taksuma tells Danton of THE THREATENING COLOURED TIDAL WAVE, though at the same time expressing the confident opinion that the Europeans will be powerless to check it. Danton warns Australians by means of public meetings and the newspapers, and is laughed at for his pains.
Taksuma is an important factor in the working out of the love story. How that story terminates — how Major Matte Yoko repeats his threat to return and secure Mabel, how eventually he does return when the Japanese are masters of Australia, and only one White person in all the land is a free agent, need not be told in this brief outline.
“THE COLOURED CONQUEST” contains no padding; no dry-as-dust matter sandwiched in between the incidents. Not only every chapter, but every page, commands the attention of the reader, whose interest, in fact, is enchained throughout.
Already overtures are proceeding in connection with the publication of “THE COLOURED CONQUEST” in England, America, and other countries. It is a book that must stir the world.
“THE COLOURED CONQUEST” will commence in the “Examiner” on
Next Week. Next Week.
Source:
Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 26 July 1904, p. 1, column 5
Also published (with some differences) in:
The Cootamundra Herald (Cootamundra, NSW), 6 August 1904, p. 3
Clarence & Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 9 August, p. 6
The Albury Banner, and Wodonga Express (Albury, NSW), 12 August 1904, p. 5
Editor’s notes:
Imperial Navy = in the context of early Australia, the British Navy (the Royal Navy)
Tokio = an archaic spelling of Tokyo (capital city of Japan)
[Editor: Changed “The Colored Conquest” (in the heading) to “The Coloured Conquest” (in line with the five instances of that spelling in the advertisement, and per the correct spelling of the book’s title).]
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