GERMAN'S ADMISSION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2724, 20 March 1916, Page 6

GERMAN'S ADMISSION

ANOTHER APPEAL TO IRELAND.

The "New York World" publishes extracts from a pamphlet which the German Foreign Office is ' secretly circulate ing, entitled "Great Britain, and Europe." The precious work is from the pen of Count Reventlow, and a translation of it has been made and "printed for private circulation only"— among the Irish. Fourteen chapters are devoted .to Irish history as the Germans would like the Irish and the world to view it. The work culminates with the following pas. sages, which ajro interesting because they are an indirect admission that un. ■less British sea power can be destroycd Germany must lose the wanSo long as .Ireland remains a British colony—or rather a British fortressGreat Britain can at any' time shut off the whole of North-Eastern Europe from all access to the ocean; even as by means of Gibraltar, Port Said, and Aden she can clo6othe Mediterranean. Ireland is the key to the Atlantic. Release Ireland from bondage and the Atlantic is at once opened up to Europe. Therefore must Ireland be restored to Europe if Europe is to be free. An independent, neutral Irish nation would be a natural bulwark of European liberty in the west. Freedom depends upon freedom of the seas: and freedom of the seas depends ou the liberation of Ireland.