GERMANY AND BRAZIL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 5

GERMANY AND BRAZIL.

ANOTHEB LINK, By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Berlin, March 31. The cable from Eniden to Brazil, via Teneriffe and Monrovia (Liberia), has been opened. A NEW GERMANY. There are at present three good cable routes to South America. The concession for the new line was granted by thn Brazilian Government to a German company in June, 1908. The English route Tnns almost direct from Land's End to Rio de Janeiro. The rate by all three routes is about 4s. a word. German' interests in Brazil, as is well known, are considerable. In the provinco of.Rio Grundo do Snl, for instance, 250,000, or 25 per cent, of the population, aT9 Germans, and it is estimated that there are all told half a million or so of German citizens in Brazil. German institutions prevail in many parts of the country. Germany's trade with Brazil is at present only half that of England, but she comes second ill order, and is .£1,000,000 ahead of the United States, which she passed in 190 G. In 11)08 German imports from Brazil amounted to »£0,!)30,000, and the exports to that country totalled £(,220,000. Ten years before the figures were ,£1,525,000 and .£2,2.35,000 respectively. Three German shipping companies lines, the Hamburg-South Amerienn, the North Gernicn Lloyd, and .tho Kosmos amicably divide German trade among them. The large interests German has. acquired in Brazil have caused from time to time a gcod deal of anxiety α-i lo her intentions. None of (ho exponents of German Weltpolitik coiilemplittos violent annexation, but all contend that in soma, form or other n German State of many millions of people must be encouraged to spring up in South Brazil, and that ths German Governim-nt. must, "with the greatest possible vigour," intervene on bshalf of its (es-)Mibjects whenever necessary. _ As the Gorman settlers lose no lime in becoming Brazilian citizens after tlieir arrival, and thus are altogether oiitejde German jurisdiction, it is difficult, a i a recent writer points out, to see how Germany could intervene.