"WAR-WEARY AUSTRALIA."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 3

"WAR-WEARY AUSTRALIA."

COLOGNE PAPER'S DISCOVERY

LONDON, July 22. The Kolnisclie Zeitung ponderously attempts to prove that the British Dominions are filled with discontent and anxiety about their special war aims,and to represent the Dominion Ministers in London as struggling vainly with the Imperial Government regarding the adoption of a satisfactory Imperial policy. x The paper maintains that Germany should find ample opportunity to reap the fruits of these British dissensions, and thereby recover her lost colonies without much diffknilty. The journal says that Australia is showing signs of war-weariness, and New Zealand is "seriously lukewarm." It represents Britain as wholly concerned with the land bridge between Egypt and India, which it admits she has pretty well attained, and asserts that Britain will not be diverted from that by any other war aims of the Allies or her colonies.

The paper proceeds to urge that the best way for Germany to get hack her colonies is to bring strong political and military pressure to bear upon the Dominions themselves.

For example, it is from the South African Union that Germany must recover her two principal colonies, and therefore Germany must concentrate her political attention upon South Africa in order to bring about the desired change of opinion on the question of the return of these colonies. The article concludes by declaring that a successful advance against Egypt would be the best means of smashing the unity of the British Empire.