OVERSEA GERMANS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 7

OVERSEA GERMANS.

FATHERLAND WISHES TO DETAIN ITS GRIP. ißr T.l.cr.rt-Pn... α-wimi.. _o.»irlrtt I Bor|ln, November 17. The leaders of the Pan-German movement favour legislation declaring that naturalisation abroad does not necessarily involve the loss of German nationality. For instance,, in the opinion of tho leaders, a German naturalised in tho United States is entitled to claim tho German Government's support in relation to any other country except the United States. TEUTONS UNDER OTHER FLAGS. • THIRTY MILLIONS IN UNITED STATES. Germany's hungor for productive and prosperous colonies largely arises from the irritating fact thut ehe sees so many thousand Germans go oversea and become merged in other nationalities. ' Germans aro virile colonisers, but too much of their energy is expondod under other flags. In tho past Gorman colonies have eaten up much money and given small roturnj What Gormany longs for is an oversea Germany, whore emigration would follow the ilag. That is why at the last elections bo much popularity i centred in Herr Dernburg, the now Colonial Minister and ox-banker, who drew an alluring picture of flourishing and profitable German colonies, the result of a heaven-born administration. Behind tho big navy, tho Sonth-Wost African diamonds, and German designs in South America, lies always ithe same idea—a great oversea Gonnnny.. But the ideal grows slowly, and the PanGenrianists 'are; loth ~;td loso ■grip ; of - those numerous .Teutons 'now, under ■■,'tn6 flag of the United States..' According to an; article. in.' the TTagliche 'Rundschau;''i by., Baron, Kurt/von Strantz,.a prominent Pan-GermanisV Germany, not.Englandj is, really ,the ■"Motherland" of; the! United.. States: He adde: "Thei 30,006,000 people, of otigin. in the .JJni ted States constitute ■'an 'absolute: majority, -as:far,as7nati6nality;'is%..c6noet]led.-,'.' | Thp > .,l!iiglißh;'pr Yankee 1 minoriw,..is a .decreasing owing ito. the,ifallinp; ; birth-rate. 1 -America ; narrowly i escaped having .German as its natdoial language.. If .only. Munlenbexgi. a hundred years: agbjasl president of the House of Represeijtatives,: had. notiin the typical German, way sacrificed-his nationalityiand. used! his < influence; 6ri;'behalf of r English,''; the Republic-, j to-daj , . .'would *be externally GermanV ; and;^English''would duced'ib; the unimportance;to Which' inativto'ngno : "now condemned.' ',->:■■' < ! < .-.; I K\~ 1 Pari'-Germanistsi will,; perhapa, view with jnore: content .;the;large':German colonies ':in. countries that , do: not possess the ; .power to.' aseimUate foreigners:jnjtheißame.i'degree'.as;dobs , the■ iGreat'tßepublic* F6r.6instance, ..a , .,recon'f writer declared ithat'thereaie.settledin: Russia, a German host of over.seven maiionei : who are, ('.to, a:large 'extent under;military; brganisa-' tion," ■'•ahdvV who/ are-'mo'stly'''grouped 1 ' in ..the Russian '. western : provinces; swhere .they, is ,niost 'fe«;'6£ilnTasipji»V;-.It v their language and nationality'in a remariable, degroe,;'andoh'ave: a , greatJand , increasing" on. the: Boil.. ' ?: '; :v ":-■■'','/•;;., :" : Lord Ecberts hasstated.that: theißo,ooo Ger-mans^now,,.iji'..England,.in:-,yarious.; capacities,.and all trained[soldiers, .would ;bo:. a ,. ; serious factor in'the.-eVe'ntjdf ■-Germany getting 100,000 invaders across', tho .'.Channel, , .';.:.;■■..; .:■ '■;■'; :