GERMANY AND PEACE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15132, 29 January 1917, Page 7

GERMANY AND PEACE.

SIGNIFICANT ‘ALTERATION IX TONE. MAX HARDEN'S PROPOSALS. (Renter's Telegram.! Received January 29, 2.20 p.m. AMSTERDAM, January 28. Max Harden, writing in the Zukunft, opines that President Wilson's speech will he fruitful, despite the coldness of its reception. He foresees that France will be preserved from exhaustion, and Belgium restored,-Germany to pay half and Britain and France a quarter each. Britain and Germany will be' reconciled, Germany receiving coaling stations and colonies; and Austria-Hun-gary will he transformed into a federation similar to Germany, including an independent Serria, and possibly other Balkan States.

ANOTHER COOL SUGGESTION

TO BARTER ALREADY LOST COLONIES.

THE HAGUE. January 28. Baron von Rechcnberg, a former Gov*

ernor of German East Africa, writing from Nordndsud, says that the Fatherland most have a colony which she can iepend on in the nest war. Australasia Is unsuitable because Australia is becoming strong, and would be a menace to German colonies. He advocates a colony consisting of a vast portion of French and Belgian Congo, exchanging Kaiochau, New Guinea, her

'Australasian islands, and Togolar.d tor British East Africa, Uganda, Northern and Nyassatand. Such a T colonial empire could easily be defended from the sea, and wocld be worthy of Germany's enterprising spirit, "and would yield all the raw material required.