THE GERMANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3336, 4 September 1917, Page 2

THE GERMANS.

THE PRESSURE IN BELGIUM. Amsterdam, September 3. The Telegraaf says that practically the whole male population of Bruges has been ordered to help to strengthen the new German lines between Bruges, th Ostend Canal, and Yser Canal.

REPORTS FROM ALL FRONTS. London, September 3. A wireless German official message says: The French captured a small portion of our foremost line at Hurte- | bise Farm. Soino of our enterprises south-east of Riga succeeded. The French strongly attacked near Monastir. Wo wiped out or took prisoner those penetrating our lines. Serbian attacks at Dobropolje broke down. THOUGHTS* THAT COME TOO LATE. London, September 3. The German newspapers are giving prominence to comments on the fate of the German colonies. In connection therewith, Herr Zimmerman, ex-Foreign Minister, defines that Germany's war aims for the fu-

ture should array Central America against Anglo-Saxonism. Therefore, Germans who are not emigrating to German colonies should be made to emigrate to those regions, instead of to Australasia. North America, and South Africn. The Berliner Tageblatt emphasises tho great value of New Guinea, and Samoa to Germany, and a natural outlet through Turkey. Moreover. New Guinea and Samoa could be easily do- , fended by U-boat bases there. ' The j article concludes: If at the outbreak | of the war we knew what we know j now, we should certainly have had a | greater number of U-boats in the Pa- j cine, and things would have been very | different.