The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1912.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1912, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1912.

.Ml KAUK OF THE MAIV A citiuui.-M oi intornutiomu problems which was publihiiud rei-enfcly from ilie pen of Norman Angell is well worthy of more than casual reference. 'J'his writer's lucid and sane criticism.- are doing a groat deal towards clearing up whose vagueness lon 's them more than proper impel lance in the world's polity. | Sometimes, maybe, Angoll clogmatI ise«, unduly, but even at these times j his comments arc helpful to thinkj ors. In tho special criticism to which we re tor he deals with what he terniK ''The Mirage oi the .Map,'" and goes on to show how (on the mere talk of wart commercial interests have boon embarrassed, fortune.-; won or lost on the Bourse, bank.? :iav, suspended payment, and thousands oi people have brought' hi the verge of ruin. Sketch- | ing in graphic colours the outcome I of the Turko-1 Italian war, with its ; wide-ppreading interest,-, he says: | l iiK-i n.i t. <• 11;11 bitterness and suspicion in general have been intensified, and the one certain result of the u hole thing is that immense burdens will be added in the shape of furj tiler taxation ior armaments to tho ! already heavy ones carried by tho j five or six nations concerned. For 'two or fhree hundred millions of ! people in Europe, life, which, with all the problems of high prices, lab- ! our wars, unsolved .soi-ia! difficulties, | is none to easy as it is. will be made | harder still. Mr Angoll attributes : tho whole conflict to perfectly fu- ; tile issues which tlio vast majority I of Germans, English, French, Italian i nnd Turks could afford to treat with i indifference. These total some ! 2 '0.000,000 neoplo, and to them it , attens n.-t fwo straws whether Mo. ; rocco or pome vague African swamp the equator is administered by firman. French. Italian or Turk--.-•-h nffirors so Inn.tr th P country is troll Mr show, that, neither France nor Germany I nave been successful colonisers. In I 30 years. (l f, 0 f jn aT ,. r Tn lions, France has managed to settle 25,000 colonists in Tunis, excluding soldiers and officials, just about the numW by which the French population in France has been diminishing (annually. To-day in France there are more Germans than there are Frenchmen in all the colonies France has acquired during the last half century, while German trade with France outweighs the trade of France with all French colonies. Germany has added 20,000,000 to her population, practically without the aid of colonies. If this 20,000,000 additional of German population within German home frontiers acquired since 1871 had to depend on their country's political and colonial conquests they would starve. What aids them are countries which Germany lias never owned and never hopes to own—Brazil, Argentina, the United States, Tndia, Australia, Canada, .Russia, France and England. These are Germany's real colonies. Her own are colonies ''pour rire." The Government has to bribe Germans to go to them, and her trade with them is microscopic. Yet, remarks Mr Angell, the immense interests represented by the trading relations of Germans with the rer,t of the civilised world— without wbioh millions of Germans would be actually without foodare quite secondary to German diplomats and soldiers. They nre nothing t# ( 'Agadir incident#"; they

'are despised, because they are the outconio of the labour of the merchant and the manufacturer quite unaided by Dreadnoughts. All the diplomatic <and military conflict and rivalry, the wasto of wealth, the unspeakable foulness which Tripoli is revealing, are reserved for things which both sides to the quarrel could secrifice, not merely without loss, but with profit.