GERMAN POLICY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11879, 15 January 1914, Page 5

GERMAN POLICY.

SOME SILLY MISTAKES.

PEASANT NOT AN IDEAL COLONIST.

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LONDON, Wednesday

Presiding at the Colonial Institute at the reading of a paper by Professor Bonn, of Munich, upon German colonial policy, Lord Milner said that the manufacturing countries in tho temperate zone wero increasingly dependent on the tropics. The nation which best promoted the welfare of the subject peoples would in the end bo the most successful.

Professor Bonn said that Germany only spent seventy millions sterling on her colonies in twelve years, and had merely scratched tho surface of the real problem. Tho chartered companies failed owing to their ludicrously small capital. The difficulty had been the necessity for developing Germany at the samo time as her colonies,. The German peasant was not an ideal settler for Africa, which wanted men with capital and with the capacity for managing the natives. Gormany had made some exceedingly silly mistakes. Sho protects home agriculture even against the competition of her colonies. She wanted to create daughter States in Africa similar to Australia and Canada, and the result was a huge native rising costing twenty millions. Germany sought to assume the functions of Providence and tried to exterminate the natives, whom lack of wisdom goadod to rebellion.

Continuing, Professor Bonn said the causes retarding colonial development were rapidly disappearing. Germany had lent foreign countries a thousand millions, and was evolving an enterprising and adventurous upper class. The policy of sending white settlers had been abandoned.