A STRANGE MAP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 31 December 1915, Page 5

A STRANGE MAP

i WHAT aEßMAfe''r^SNb^D. ' Among,- the trophies brought'.hack to New Zealand from' South Africa' by ('Sergeant A. ,Wv Stuckey, who 'was through"" the German South-West \AMca v .," 'cSta- 4 paign with (the'"Union forces,"'was* a carious map of the world,*"which ;wa*s fotitid in a hospital at Otavifonteul '.(German South-West' Africa)., whenTtbre place'Hviis ' occupied >■ by the TJautooT •troops'' under General.Botha. J It was drawn upon jfitrie' • of the-walls, was elaborately eok>£r~e'd7 and evidently, the work of'a dratfgjttsI man. It shows -what-, grandiose, idtests I were rampant among .the* rank -and ."file r | of the Germans, t'ahd- the certainty--with which they- 'regarded' "the ultimate quest of the v entire world. ' marked off,-in sections, and each - sectjoni representing-a country, is- apportioned ..as 'Germany would have it-. New. Zealand in this calculation becomes "Deulsch Serland" .(German Zealand),, and -Australia is labelled "Spanish Australien," evidently as the price'of-Spain's Africa is divided into- four parts.— '-'GQeutsch Sud •AfrikaJ** (German South t Africa), "Osterr Afrika" (the north-west quarter), while Morocco ' iecome»\ "Deutsch Nordafrika" [German. North ; Africa); v "' " ' \' ' ' ' '*" In Europe Germany is extended as tar j east'as Petrograd, and the northern half of France, "and .the whole of--Belgium and Holland is also absorbed.'-To-compensate Holland for this "steal," she is allowed to retain" her-East Indies, and is" "given l a large triangular section of Southern ■China, extending-west tea:- narrowing point on ; the west coa"st of'the Caspian Sea. "Russfa'is "deprived' of her prac* ticable seaboard, "as -the' extreme west" of Siberia "is- labelled*-"Deutsch" T Oct;Asien'." Sweden "gets-Finland' and tf large section of Northern Russia; and Norway "the whole' of' 'Scandinavia. Turkey, in< addiction to her portion of E-rypt), retains the Holy Land and the whole of Arabia, and. Also,- the command of-the Suez Canal. Great Britain is renamed "Deutsch Britannien" (German Britain). India becomes "Deutsch'lndien," and Japan'is wiped off the earthby absorption in China: The map is. instructive in 'showing what the'probabite fate of the world would be were many victorious in the' great war; 'and should serve a good purpose in stimulat'in'g recruiting. '