GERMANY'S AIMS IN THE PACIFIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14288, 3 May 1917, Page 3

GERMANY'S AIMS IN THE PACIFIC.

WHOLE OBJECT W MAKE

MISCHIEF,

(Tbe Times.)

LONDON, May 2. Professor Greuss, director of the German New Guinea Company, writing to the Hamburger Nachriohten, contends that Germany must, re-establish herself in the Pacrific as a last opportunity for preventing the settlement of Japanese, American, and British, especially Australian interests. (He says it would be an unforgivable mistake to abandon the South .Seas colonies and withdraw from the Pacafic. .So long as Japan and America are hostile and Australia sees Japan a dangerous competitor and opponent, Germany has no occasion to budge from the Pacific. The disappearance of the German flag from New Guinea ahd the Pacific isles would mean an irreparable loss of prestige throughout the east. If Germany lost her naval bases, Germans would raunk as mere carriers and traders in whose faces the door would be always slammed. Professor Preuss, in the course of the anticle, candidly explains that Germany's whole object in the Pacific must be to make mischief.