PAN-GERMANS ATTACKED.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13789, 18 January 1918, Page 5

PAN-GERMANS ATTACKED.

Dernburg is Candid.

[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10.

. Dr Bernhard Dernburg, who prior to the war was for some years German Colonial Secretary, and during the war was an active agent in the Kaiser’s interests in the United States till he was sent home in 1915, made a bitter attack on the Pan-Germans in a speech at Frankfort,

Dr Dernburg ridiculed the demands for annexations and indemnities. There was not enough gold in the world, ho said, to pay the cost of the war. Germany had no power to compel the payment of long-dated instalments from England and America. The value of the mineral producing districts of Longwy and Bricy was 150 millions, which was equal to tho cost of the war for 25 days.

The idea of taking colonies was equally illusory. The German capital outlay upon her colonies before the war had only produced five million sterling a year, which was the cost of the war for one day from six in tho morning to eight at night.

General disarmament was essential. The cost of the air war alone was equal to the whole German Army Budget before the war. The cost of armaments on the new scale was obviously unbearable.