TONGA'S FOREIGN POLICY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3335, 13 February 1918, Page 57

TONGA'S FOREIGN POLICY.

AUCKLAND, February 6. The Premier of Tonga has submitted to the King of Tonga a report on the foreign policy of the island, in which he says iie considers it his duty to lay before the King what ho believes to bo the views of the Tongan people about the Germans. "We do not want them." says the report, '"because they form part of a nation whone records of rapine, murder, and brutality have never been exceeded. Wo would rather see Tonga cleared of them. I hope that this will bo done. It is well known that s-o far only the business premises of the Germans have been closed, but these trading stations aro still there. Some of them are occupied at present by British subjects, who are paying rent for them to Germans. Well, unless something is done 'hey will again be opened after the war, end will again become German trading sta ticn9. The Germans wi'.i go on as they did before. Their plantations are still occupied by thom, and they aro allowed to sell their produce from then* places. 1 do not think that this should be allowed." I think every leaso should bo cancelled, and every German trader sent to some colony, away from Tonga."