GERMANY'S COLONIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 903, 24 August 1910, Page 5

GERMANY'S COLONIES.

BRITISH FLAG- DESIRED. j» By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrieht Berlin, August 22. Herr Maximilian Harden (journalist) and Dr. Carl Peters (the explorer) state that-German South-West Africa is in a discontented state. The bureaucratic officials have no sympathy with the colonies, many of which' desire' to pass under the British flag.

In a breezy letter from, the Far East, Mr. Poulteney Bigelow, tho well-known American journalist, wrote a few months ago:—"The Berlin Government, from tho outset of its colonial manifestations, based its claim for popular support upon tho false premises that German colonies would attract Germans; and that in this way tho German tongue would bo spread abroad and ultimately supplant that" of Shakespeare. The German, however, persistently refuses .to go to his own colonies; he prefers those where English ■is the speech and where law is coloured by more of personal' liberty', v "On my last visit to 'Kiao-.Cb.au, even at the officers'' mess I noticed that the Chinese waiters spoke only English, and that no German officer could relieve his feelings or his thirst without recourse to tho tongue of the enemy. "And throughout German New Guinea I found that the natives were teaching English to Germans, with, results that must impress Berlin autocrats" more painfully even than the fact that all efforts to spread Germau speech in Poland have so far failed.", '. .