COLONIAL ARMY WANTED BY GERMANY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 7 February 1918, Page 3

COLONIAL ARMY WANTED BY GERMANY

FXPKCTS TO TAKR i>.>l,oXl ICS j THAT FOUGHT HER j The *em;-offioia-l tblogiic at tlio. end of October published a leading ed-torial article dealing \v!fcli German cownial troops, in wb'ifh some interesting conelus-'ons indioa'oive of future German Avar pot'cy if Germany should w'n tlie war arc, reached l . The paper firsifc refers to "assertions of Krii;'o»ts press)" that beiWo tin? wnr tho German A'h-.icait colonics were organised militarily for tho purpose of carrying: on a war of conquest against Vhe African colonies | of other European- Powers", and 1 menI tious a recent French publication "as say in g that before'(Jhe wa« r there were 'in the Gorman o-jlon/js 10.000 native triops with strong European reinfcrcem,,uts", ail peH.'ec'.ly equipped." It then a.i'gu.s that, in fact, there w&r,e about .15>,000 'native troops, with perhaps .'IOOO Europeans, till badly ami'i'd, with"i^suff'Ciiout artillery and supp'ies, an dyojb this sniali army has kept an army of .about 200,000 men busy. in vow of th-is• the -Cologne Gazette argues that ikl 'is a great Germany had not a colonial r.i'iny about Hve. t:mes as b'g. Had this b'-'en Ihe case, it- nays, (die Entente would not have been able- to br.ng vast numbers- of colonel troops to the Kurop'va-n 'theatre of war. At present there, 'is nothing to prevent Fng'and and France from cont'nuing to employ vast IViihi'H o untapped resources In tho way -of coloured man power. Experience hi this war has shown tba-t. thy East .V:'r:ca-n native, if .suffciently tiained and led by European', makes an effytfieut soldier, wh 1 lei tho SouthWest African > even a- beb, : er soidier, wider similar <* : mimstam«s. *'ln -future." says th" («hzetU\ '"in. order to pr, vent! her toliCHiii'esi from overrun by' other peoples, Germany must utilise fco'the full these reswecs -ijf mat. 'pow [ er. SAcli of tiuwe r«aM.ves as have. fatherto not boon subjefil. to Genna.ny must tome uir! r hor nii'\ wh'ii<> a'l foreign colo.tv.es which have ma-d'< n<£rnpl.. (i ; erinan eotonics UiU.it he-oiiie German pt\-paty. Th:U- would bo tii-> bt'.-b; eouifreK-a-t on i'or the sullv : ug oV the German name. A eol'o:;:..a ui my must- !*•. treated for co.on : aJ lu-'ds. and usl. nou used 'in Kurope. A big eohiiKnl army, based upon long server and II':' retention of t'-ni'-'-exinire'l sol-'i"is in re-s'-'r\o.. be-excellent l.«ir l!u-> eeoi,em e a i deyoh'p'namt oij.' («;.•:■.iiaiiy'st old ami new coJrn es a.s discharged soldI'e'.s (an b-i mnrJ<->- ,in.io useful labourers. '■> . * "Geruia.uy must" haw «. strung eoI'ciiiVt I army to strengthen .iter position unci at the ,sume I'imu weaken thaV of her citenres who must ti«ver again be aliowd to bring (V) loured troops to the"; r a .'d ;;n K-urope.'''. -