GERMAN COLONIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 25 January 1918, Page 5

GERMAN COLONIES.

THEIR AFTER-WAR DESTINY. ; ■ AUSTRALIA KEENLY CONCERNED. (Received Jan. 25, 9.10 am.) SYDNEY, Jan. 25. The destiny of the oaptured German colonies is occupying considerable attention. The Lieutenant-Governor, in a speech referring to the danger of the future of New Guinea being judged in the light of insufficient knowledge, said that one circumstance to which sufficient attention had never been drawn was that I Australia was. the one country in the world threatened with the curse of a i land frontier with such a nation as Germany under such circumstances as might be avoided. "New Guinea," he said, "has been left with divided authority, and quite apart from the dangers arising from submarine; ports on the coasts of New Guinea., there is this eternal rankling sore in front of us of a land that can at any moment raise a quarrel' about mines, oilfields or'anything else. The idea of self-determination in such a case, where occupants like the Germans are using every moment to secure their own prestige with the people, is one that no Australian could contemplate with equanimity for a single moment." « MELBOURNE, Jan. 25. 1 The Senate resolutions regarding the after-war destiny of the captured German colonies demand representation of Australian interests.