AMERICA'S "DESIGN" ON AFRICA

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1918, Page 9

AMERICA'S "DESIGN" ON AFRICA

ACCORDING TO A GERMAN VIEW,

The Cologne Gazette recently asserted that America, which is a most ardent fighter for the Monroe Doctrine, is getting Very busy in regard to territory in Africa, where Germany has great interests, especially since Dr. Soli, the Colonial Minister, advocated the rounding out of apolicy for a central African colonial empire, which has met with applause throughout Germany, and is supported by all parties.

The paper says that a most important question for Germany is involved m these colonies, namely, the procuring of the raw materials necessary for German indiistries. It remarks that the most important point of contact in the central African colony, which is being "fought for,'' will have to be part of the West African Portuguese colony of Angola and the Belgian Congo. It is just'at this particular spot, the Gazette says, that America has had a mission since 1809.

The Gazette assorts that American missionaries went to work in Hawaii to counteract German influence "most unscrupulously," and that during the war new missionaries have been active in Africa. _ It says that Professor Hans Meyer, in his book about the Portuguese colonies, calls attention to an American mining company north of Loanda, a petroleum company, and the East Angola, diamond mines. These mines will naturally bring commerce and trade, it continues, of which the Americans will reap the advantage, and the. mission is on that very spot, so that influence on the natives, which is so important a factor in a new country, will lie in the enemy's hands.