GERMANY’S REAL OBJECT.
THE NERVE CENTRE OF SUEZ. AN INTERESTING THEORY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received Alarch 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Alarch 9. Lord Denliegh, interviewed by the Globe, said: “The Germans’ real object in this war is to secure a strong strategic position in North Palestine, whence they could threaten the Suez Canal, which is the main ganglion of the British Empire. Ihe ship canal now under construction connecting the Rhine and Danube, and another proposed canal connecting the Elbe and Danube wiU enable the Germans to bring destroyers and submarines secretly across Europeand choose tlieir moment to rush out and make approaches to the buez Canal impossible. AVe would then be able to reach India through the buez bv Germany’s gracious permission. AVe stopped Germany burgling Madiera in 1905 by moving the * fleet, Germany desiring to turn it int another Heligoland. But she is still anxious to seize Madiera and the Azores in order to dominate tlie At I antic. ’ ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4814, 11 March 1918, Page 5
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