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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16477, 1 September 1915, Page 8

— Professor Paul Rohrbach, of the Com* mercial Academy of Berbn, in his book "Germany Isolated: An Exposition of the , Economic Causes of the War" shows •Germany was not able to dissociate the* idea of commercial and political power,-and she cono ives that as economic interests ex-* | pand so also must territorial possessions. ' f>r Rohrbach has' firmly Convinced himself that Great Britain has in the last decade devised a' magnificent scheme fdr the subjection of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Arabia. But Germany ,at the same time has been throwing, out commercial feelers m the direo- i tion of Bagdad, only to"* find herself for many complicated reasons unable to carry out her projected railroad. In this tho 'author sees proof rfositive of the inappeasable hostility of' England, and sufficient > excuse for anythmpr that Germany mignt do to thwart her rival in other fields. Ho t finds proof of Britain's hdstility m,, tho Agadir incident. A's he discusses the 'cos-. « sion of the Kameruns by Franoe to "tho : „ VKaiser he cannot heln letting outanambi-'t. • tion of Germany IJq admits that 'it ex-1|; tended the dominions of Africa to the \ border of the Belgian Congo, and ho makes" 1 , ll clear that he has cherished the" 'hope • that, sooner or later, that vast territory j ' might fall under German domination', <.» — Tho peculiarly dangerous type of mine ' ■which is being used by tho enemy ';in the , Dardanelles operations is tho invention of*a . Swed sh scient st It was offered pome t\yO \ 1 years ago to both England and prance and <■ rrjrotcd, but was "agerly snapped up by;,, Berlin. It floats automatically,? with the ebb, "" and flow of\tho tide f and a vptv slight eoh. * cussion will cause it to explode* *, •, — '