GERM COLONIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11476, 2 March 1918, Page 5

GERM COLONIES.

DR SOLF’S COMPLAINT. OBJECTS TO BRiTiSH RETENTION THE AIMS OF SMUTS, CARSON AND GEORGE. r ’ ’*' " -- Hnited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Reuter. Amsterdam, Feb. 28. In the Reichstsg, “Dr Sollf. referring to the recent speech delivered hy General Smuts on the 28th of January, desling with the German colonies.fTsaid that it constituted an official British statement. He said: ‘Germany lias never allowed any doubt to exist regarding the German Government’s and the people’s unanimous demand to get her _ colonies back. Her colonial policy is a vital question for Germany, and it is not a luxury. General Smuts apparently desires to destroy Germany as a colonial power, just as Lleyd George wants, to destroy liar ns ' a Continental power, and .Sir Edward Carson to destroy her as an industrial power. General Smuts no longer advances his former humanitarian plea for consideration for the natives, but places in the forefront the stark Imperialistic standpoint that the security of the British Empire excludes the return of the colonies.”

DAILY" MAIL ON THE SUBJECT. MUST NEVER GET THEM BACK. A DISRUPTING PROPOSAL. London, March 1. The Diily Mail declares that Germany must never be allowed to resume its colonial possessions. The Dominions, after giving their best blood and treasure to end Gres ter Germany, would feel unscrupulously sold if Downing Street even: considered the question. Statesmen caps bio of such criminal stupidity would bo wholly incompetent to conduct the Empire’s affairs, and the proposal to surrender the Colonies would go near disrupt! ng the Umpire.