THE LOST COLONIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5

THE LOST COLONIES.

GERMAN JOURNAL’S VIEWS. KULTUR ’S ENCROACHMENTS. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 25. The Hamburg ‘•Fremdenblatt’ heads an article, “No Yielding of the German South Seas.” The journal says there must be no toleration of the British pretensions to hold these waters and the islands in which German Ivultur had begun to set a firm foot. One hears in England, we are told, that Australia and New Zealand do not dream of giving them tip. and that, therefore, the London Government feels itself powerless in the matter. This is nonsense. England is the leading Power in the Entente, and at the Peace Conference its advice will be followed not only by the other Powers, hut by her Dominions. Germans must never lose sight of the fact that their Empire firmly established in the South Seas, with numerous naval bases and coaling stations of her own. can- bid defiance to Australia and New Zealand, can hold Japan in check if necessary, can threaten the Western shores of both North and South America, and, m addition, secure enormous quantities of valuable raw material. “All our colonial specialists and experts unite in declaring that our. sea power would be enormously weakened were we to relinquish these possessions, and in our present temper, and 1 in view of our magnificent victories on land, on sea, and in the air, we are not dreaming of relinquishing anything. At the conclusion of the Peace Conference it will bo found that our South Sea possessions have been very considerably added to. And it must he so.”