WHY NOT FRIENDSHIP?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 8

WHY NOT FRIENDSHIP?

—, —(h —. — GERMANY & ME COLONIES. CONSUI.'QENEiSAL'S PEMARKS, O!t dorrieepenftojiW . Atioklandj February 12.' Dr. R. KiJiaiii, Consul-tVenpral in Australasia for the German Enipwo, wlw is at .present, on a visit to Auckland, had soiiio intoresting .observations t<j mako to a prftssjnan this moniiiig on the economic aspect of Germany's relationship witlj Australasia. UiseussiiTg the .apparent feoliiic of hostrlity which cxiEts in these Britislf dependeiiQies towards feeK mg which, lie.remarked, was ju-.st as dotaito in Mγ Zcafend as k Australia jw-inted out that, .so far from Doing & liqefafo factor k 'the develop* ment .of British industries, Germany was more and more every yea> bocominfc the complsmeKt of the. econarnic stnieturp of the British Empire, At the liresent time Statistics Showed that a verv groat pronortibtt of tiro coppo'f ontpiit of .Au.etralia.i indnding tlto wlidie p.r<>duetiois of the Mount Jlorßtt.ii mine, wjir taken by Germany, whef-a the high stato of dcyoloptncnt reached by .tho :olcctrio iiirlustries clemaiided an iiitmeiise..supply of a certain t)U:alitV of eopuor of thp quality found.in. Atistralm. In ditc way ajid auotlior, in sliort, German, statis-, ties showeel -that- the Fatherland , pur-, chases about £i.3,000;000 worth of 'thu goods .vMrl.rpro.dticqd in the -Coninioh. wealth, while she only: 'Soils betwebii £3,OQo,OflOaiKl £4,00.0,000 in rctrtrn. "Again," said Pi-'. JWin.n'ii "as regards our consumption of India.n goods it reaches or 50,000,000 marks aiiiMm-Hy, whevcas we sell very little too India. : It is ii nawrai co.mptetien to' an ecionomic -Etructure to \have a biijyr, and Germany is standiitg in tljat position to tho Bfitistt dependencies. Most of out imports, qioreuy&f, are, carried in British bottornß. As a -tusttei of fact- ,liy this process of pHtchasini; tlio;ra.w material and traiisforwihij it into fjniilied- cconemic p.rofiuet.s, Gor* m:aii.y, instep' of exporting meii, ex.poiis ■ iiia.ft«f.actufes. I.ii ih.e • last five years the . esport of men from Gerniany has decrojtsed: from about 2o(),bQp'a year to 18j00Q. and,, to retain this - surplus in .additjo.it to th.6 liataraJ.-uiorcnsG in jtonuiation, it is necessary tliat_ our.: industries -should become increasingly active. -.Titf natural coTollary is that out'put.chase of raw .materials must also .increase'great* ly to keep pace With our manufactures. Germany, net- possessing any -great producing dependencies of hot oivn, looks naturally to tho large-producing depojtdeucjeis -of. the British Emfiire,, of. Which 6h© must become an ever larger customer; and, as such, ever closer in. ■eooftomie relationship." , ■ Dr. Kili-ahi went on to -remark that Germany herself was an immigration field iirt :ln : rge numbers oi th.e..Sla*ohio peoples ; of Eastern Enrape. The iitflus into-. Eastern Germany last year reached 20,-O'Oo> The significance, of.'the.se figures would' be bciter realised : when it is mentioned thttt, -cjufing tho s-a.mo-period, Australia gained 80,000 by imnugf.atioin. "So you can see," he langhed, "how , unfounded is your/car of a German iijvasion of settlers here." Upon the interviower EJiggostiii-g th.at an Invasion, of German sflttlcrs .might ho r-a'thcr welcome than othcrwi-s.o i ! n Australilpia, the ConHil-Senpral pointed out that the ocp.iiomio aim of -ocrinaiiy was to eiicourago her ..iwoplfl to remain in tho Fathcflaiid. As for til*; political aspect-, he pointed to Hie closer .bonds of understandiiifi botween. Great. Britain and G(?r« litany..,,, ~: | Qhe,.9.f, tho.,qutcpmes.,.ol the. Balkan* KsAid r w.as ■tiio'griwing re-, ■ignition if\ Greiit .Britain-:,that it is not her pplipy to heni in Germany in, the Near East. '"The real interests, of Great Britain and Germany -in-.-that ■field are practically identicaly" he remarked.