GERMANY'S ISOLATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1915, Page 4

GERMANY'S ISOLATION

— .«, CUT OFF FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. German news regarding her former South Seas colonies is derived mainly from Australian newspapers, and is somewhat belated by the time the Berlinev reads it at his breakfast table. This is but one instance of hoiv completely the German Empire has been cut off frdm telegraphic communication with the outside world. Germany has been isolated from the rest of the world practically .since the war began, and has bitterly denounced British "sea barbarity" in cutting her cables and destroying- her wireless chain all over the world, but nobody knew how complete, her-isolatioli was until Germany herself disclosed tho fact in an official document, recently published by the German Colonial Office. In the course of this document she says:— ' < f . "Soon after the outbreak of war all communication with the colonies (Ger* man colonies) by sea, was broken, and all German transmarine cables were cut by the British, so that even telegraphic communication with th© whole of Our colonies was rendered impossible. The only remaining means of communication was wireless telegraphy, but the first warlike measures of the British were directed to depriving us of this means also. On 12th August fell the wireless station at Yap, and soon afterwards the station at Naru. Tasigata (Samoa) foil oh 29th August, and Bitapaka, in New Pomelania, on 12th September. During the night of 24th August the great station of Kamina, in Togo, had to be destroyed by us in order to prevent its capture. So vanished all possibility of further direct communication with the African Protectorates, which hitherto had been able to communicate via Kamina. As a matter of fact, there has been from the very beginning a disturbance of the system which prevented us from receiving any reports from the Governor of East Africa after the outbreak of the war. And so the material which we have here collected, and which, in the main, reached Berlin by circuitous routes and very late, and is mostly derived from enemy newspapers, must necessarily remain fragmentary, and some of it must also be regarded as untrnstworthy."