THE LOST COLONIES

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14500, 4 September 1917, Page 5

THE LOST COLONIES.

ANXIOUS DISCUSSIONS' IN

GERMANY

A ZIMMERMAN SCHEME.

("The Times.")

(Received Sept. 3, 9.15 p.m.)

London, Sept. 3

The German press is giving prominence to tfce fate of the German colonies. In connection therewith Herr 'Zimmerman defines tho war aims for the future. , Germany should array Central and South America against Anglo-Saxonism. Therefore Germans not .emigrating to German colonies should .bo. made to emigrate to those regions instead of to Australasia, North America, and Soutb'Africa.

The ''Berliner Tageblatt" emphasises tho great value of New Guinea and (jamoa- to Germany. Moreover, New Guinea and Samoa co'ulds be defended ■by U-boat-bases""there. " . .-

T.t■ concludes: "If at the .outbreak'of the war we kneAv what we know now we would certainly have had a greater

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number of U boats in tt© Pacific, and things would have been very different.''