POST-WAR PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17097, 31 August 1917, Page 5

POST-WAR PROBLEMS

PROMOTION OF COLONISATION.

SCHEME 'UNDER CONSIDERATION

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.

'LONDON, August 29. The Empire Resources Development Committee is considering a scheme for the post-war distribution of the population by the promotion of colonisation by means of the selection, training, and financing of intending settlers by land banks. The committee considers that the State should receive a proportion of the ultimate profits. :

SUGGESTION TO THE ENTENTE.

THREAT OF A BOYCOTT.

BERNE, August 29. German Republican circles in Switzerland urge the Entente to threaten Germany with a commercial boycott of five, 10, or 20 years, believing that this ultimatum would suffice to bring the war lords to reason, as they would then be convinced that the Entente means: business.

GERMAN COLONIES

NECESSITY FOR RECOVERY,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, August 29. Herr Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hainburg-Amerika Company, publishes some important articles in the 'Hamburger Fremdenblatt, insisting on the absolute necessity for recovering the German colonies intact; also for rounding oil those in Africa antl considerably increasing those in the Pacific, Herr Ballin points out that the Mittel Enropa schemes are inadequate to provide the raw materials vital to Germany's industries; therefore countries producing cotton, coffee, jute, rubber, and other products must be under German control, otherwise the German Empire will be under the heel of England and the United States

Admiral von Crapon also insists on the necessity for tropical possessions and securing portions of the Belgian Congo During the peace negotiations the German delegates must continually ask' whether their colonies can supply the necessary raw material, and are populated thickly enough to supply German planters and exploiters with the necessary labour. In these respects the coasts and islands of Eastern Asia would be particularly valuable.

(Received Aug. 30, at 8 p.m.) Admiral von Crapon adds that coaling stations and marine bases must also be secured. Germany's possessions in the South Seas must not only be restored, but several other groups must be secured, in view of future entanglements with Japan and the United States. Some of the per-manent-fleet—fast cruisers—must be based in the South Seas headquarters and the fleet protected by powerful fortifications.

ANOTHER CONFERENCE ARRANGED.

Renter's TMecrrams. LONDON, August 30. (Received Aug. 31, at 1.45 a.m.) The Inter-allied Conference has decided to hold another allied conference iii preparation for the Stockholm Congress.