DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13752, 27 April 1918, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

Dr. Karl Peters, communl} called "Hangman Peters'" in LibGerman eral and Sue; "stic circles Methods in Germany bet use of his Blamed, abuse and muvd. . of.helpless natives his reign as Imperial Commissioner in German South-east Africa, has just written his autobiography, from which a copy of the Kolnisehe Zeifurr, received in London quotes as follows:—"It is untrue that this war arose mainly from colonial competition. On the contrary, the unpopularity of the Germans in the world, which is at the bolfom of tr>'« giant s!iu;,i'e, arose .n great p.irt from the fact that we did not long ago possess sufficient elbow-room. The' German proletariat streamed abroad'year by year. Some of them became a burden on the poor rates. Some of them practiced what is called unfair competition with foreign labour. The German workmen underbid foreign labour and drove >t out. Or the German clerk appeared, end also engaged in what the Western peoples call unfair competition. He o.'ten work-d for nothine stole from the loreiin rivals their business secrets, and then set himself up in compctitiof. People complained of it in North America, in Great Britain, in France and assuredly in other countries, it was just the same with the sale of German goods. Here also there was often not an honourable competition, but an unfair competition bv cutting of pi ices and, it was complained by all sorts of tricks. The constant desire to reap where one has not sown is in the end too devilish cunning to be called cle-ver. At any rate, it does not make eitWr the individual or whole peoples beloved in foreign gountries " Dr. Peters is one of the pjlfuN nf t'<e von Tirpitz-Revenllow Fatherland Party.