WHEN BRITAIN FALLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 34

WHEN BRITAIN FALLS.

A GERMAN OPTIMIST. i (Faou Ocr" Own Correspondent.) LONDON, October 23. Kn optimistic German has made hundreds of marks out of a pamphlet of 16 !»*«"£ costra- lOd. in which, with the tongue of the Prophet, he tells the world what the map will look like in 1911. As the result of the defeat of the North Sea fleet by the Orman High Sea fleet, a German army co^ landed in England, tieGeman le-iora swept over France and England, and then— horrible dictu ! Anyhow, "ten days after the magnitude of The German victory in the North Sea was known at Tokio, the Japanese had taken possession of Hongkong. A terrible revolution broke out in India, and thousands of the English residents in that country were massacred. Ordor was not restored va^ India until the Russian Ocosacke marched into tho country, and were greeted by the inhabitants, as in the old days, by the op-pro-5--d peoples of the Balkan Peninsula as liberators. A massacre of the Europeans in Egypt was only prevented by the landing of Italian trcops. " Six days latenr the United States of South Africa constituted themselves an independent republic, and almost simultaneously the Oonigress of the TJ-nit€d .States of. America despatched troops to maintain order in Canada. The hour of liberation had also come for Ireland. British officials were driven out of th© countTy, and a republic was proc!a.imieid. This waa*, -which was decided by a battle in the North Sea, only lasted for three weeks. Starvation compelled England to sue for peace. Victorious Germany showed a wise magnanimity in her conditions. Apart from a'war indemnity proportionate to the wealth of England and France, she contented herself with seizing all the African possessions of the two countries, with the exception of the * new independent republic in the south. Moreover, Germany dlid not retain this booty for hers-slf, but divided it with the other two Powers of the Triple Alliance. This war was the end of the British Empire. One defeat had been enough to prove to the whole world that the British Empire was based on the weakest foundations." The author publishes a new map ojf the world to show the redistribution of ''territory in 1910. England, Scotland, and Wales axe all that remain of the British Empire. Ireland is shown as an independent republic. France has lost all her possessions. The Russian Empire includes, in addition to its present territories in Europe, the whole of Asia, with the exception of China, Siam, amd the Malay Peninsula. Japan is shown as the. possessor of all the remaining parts of Asia, as well as of Austr&Sia and New Zealand. With the exception of the new independent .Republic of South Africa, this continent . i& divided between Germany, Austria-Hungary, -and-- Italy. The United States of America' have absorbed the whole of Canada and Venezuela. The Ottoman Empire. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and the South American Republics are shown as independent countries. The German author concludes by putting the following words into the mouth of the imaginary lecturer : " But the achievements 'of tho great British ' nation have "not been iii vain. The memory of the British Empire will live in history for the instruction of other nations. France has in this year of 1911 sunk to the level of am international pleasure resort, but London will- remain for ever and ever the venerable shrine at which, historians will aevmble to pay homage to the shades of a departod Power."