GERMANY AND COLONIES
REPLY TO GERMAN GENERAL. (Sydney—By Mail.) When General von Epp, the leader of Germany s Colonial Society, stated that ‘in Australia, one-third of Germany’s population lives In a territory 20 times the size of Germany,” he wt... guilty of a half-truth. The “vast fc tile spaces” of Australia are not times the size of Germany, for it i now w’ell established that 1,067,000 «.. the total 2,974,600 square miles of incontinent have an average rainfau under 10 inches. Even the 14 per cen:. of the country which enjoys 30 u. more inches of annual rainfall is subject to drought and other irregularities and vagaries. ______
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 9
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