LOST GERMAN COLONIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 5

LOST GERMAN COLONIES.

NOT TO BE RETURNED

A DEFINITE DECLARATION

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, Sept. 26. ' Mr Walter Long, Secretary for the Colonies, speaking at a dinner to the colonial press delegates, made a remarkable declaration regarding the German colonies. - He said: "We are told we did not enter the war fo r an extension of terri+°ijr' i.^ s is true. We are told these territories must be returned to Germany. lam here to-night to cay ; that if these territories are returned to ! Germany the sacrifice of our heroes ! will. be made in vain, and I cay the j spirits of those men will come from ' the grave to rekuke us if .after "the sword has done its splendid work the ' pen is so cowardly as to give back what the sword has won. "The Germans regard th« Pacfific islands as bases for wireless stations. " aeroplanes and submarines. If allowed to -return to the position she occupied ! before the war the peace of the world will be threatened. We toust make Germany understand that she has overstepped the bounds."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ' Assn. : . , *"^— ' r—. ' —• . I