ONE OF THE GERMAN OBJECTIVES
BIG CANAL SCHEME THROUGH CENTRAL • EMPIRES .:; TO THREATEN THE SUEZ •..■:. , CANAL (Rec. .March 10,. 6.5 p.m.) ':"• ''•■'-, - ;: - ■:■''■ "■■'•"■.%• ■'". London, March 9. '■'.Lord' Denbigh,. interviewed by the ''Globe," said: —"The Germans' real purpose in, this war.'is to secure a strong strategic position in northern Palestine, from where they could threaten the Sugz Canal, which is tho main- ganglion of the British Empire. ; A ship canal, is now in process of con'bcruction'' connecting the Rhine'with the Daniibo,'and another is projected to connect the Elbe and the Danube. These would enable the Germans to bring destroyers and submarines secretly across Europe, and choose a moment to rush out and make tho approaches to tho Suez; Canal impossible. We ' would then only be able to reach India via Suez by Germany's gracious permission. Wo stopped Germany burgling Madeira in 1905 by moving cur Fleet. Germany desired to turn it into another Heligoland, and is still unxious to- seize Madeira and the Azores in order to dominate the Atlan-tic—Aus.-N.Z. Cable As.sn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 6
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