GERMANS AND THE PACIFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 2

GERMANS AND THE PACIFIC.

The Hamburg Fremdcnblatt heads an article, "No Yielding of the German South Seas." The journal says there must be no toleration of the British pre tensions to hold the.se waters and the islands in. which German kultur 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 up, and that therefore the London Givernment 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, bi?+. by her own Dominions.

Germans must never lose sight of the fact that their Empire firmly established in the South Seas, with numerous naval bases and coalino; 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, in addition, secure enormous quantities of raw material. "All our colonial specialists and experts unite in declaring that our sea power would be enormously weakened vrere we to relinquish these possessions, and in our present temoer, and in view of our magnificient "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 be found that our South Sea possessions will have been very considerably added to. And it must be so."