NOT WANTED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 120, 7 February 1918, Page 7

NOT WANTED

GERMANS IN TONGA. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 6. . The Premier of Tonga has submitted to tho King of Tonga a report on the foreign policy, in which he says he considers it his duty to lay before the KiriK what lie believes to bo the views of the Toucan people about the Germans. "We do not want thorn," says the report, "because/ they form part of a nation whose records of rapine, murder, and brutality have never been exceeded. We would rather seo Tonga cleared of them. I hope that this will bo done. It is_ well known that so far only the business premises of Germans have been closed for the purpose of carrying on their occupation as traders, but theso trading stations are still there, some of them occupied at present by British subjects, who are paving rent for them to_ Germans, and will, unless something is done, again be opened after the war, and will again become German trading stations. The Germans will go on as they did before. Also, their plantations are still occupied by thorn, and they aro allowed to sell their produce- from these places. I do not think that this should be allowed. I think theso should be cancolled, and every German trader sent to some colony away from Tonga."