GERMANY'S COLONIAL ESTATES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1958, 15 January 1914, Page 5

GERMANY'S COLONIAL ESTATES.

MUDDLEMENT IN AFRICAN COLONISATION. Bj Telejtrapli-Prsn Assoolatlon-CopjTllflii (Rec. January 11, 10.25 p.m.) , London, January 14. 1 residing at a meeting of tho Colonial Institute, at which a paper by Professor Bonn, of Munich, upon German colonial policy was read, Lord Milner said that tho manufacturing countries of tho temperate 7.0110 were becoming increasingly dependent on tho tropics. The nation which best promoted the welfare of its subject peoples would in the end bo tho most successful. Professor Bonn said that Germany had only spent £70,000,000 on her colonies in a period of twelve years, and had merelv scratched tho surface, so to speak. The real probltm was the position of tho chartered companies, which had failed owing to their ludicrously small capital. Ono difficulty had been tho necessity of developing Germany itself at the same time as tho colonies. The German peasant was not an ideal settler for Africa, which wanted men cf capital, with tho capacity for managing the natives. Germany, he said, had made some extremely silly mistakes. Shu protected her homo agriculture even against tho competition of her colonies, and sho wanted to create daughter States in South Africa similar to those in Australia and Canada. The result was a huge nativo rising, costing twenty millions. Germany then sought to assume the functions of Providence, and tried to exterminate the natives, whom the lack of wisdom goaded to rebellion. Tho causes which wore retarding colonial development were rapid'y disappearing, but Germany lent foreign countries a thousand million sterling for evolving enterprising and adventurous schemes. The upper-class policy of sending white settlers had been abandoned.