GERMANY'S PLANS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 19, 17 October 1918, Page 4

GERMANY'S PLANS

"BOOTY" IN THE PACIFIC.

"Germany went into this war for profit. TlWe is no question about that," said the Prime Minister at the civic reception on Tuesday. "War had become a business with Germany. The Germans had fought several wars during the preceding half century or so, and they had made a profit each time. They had extended their territory and their power each time, and they had come to look upon their armies invincible. They wore agreed-that might was right, and that the /tfanquished must pay. They went mfiJ'tliis war with the expectation, of vast gains when They liad imposed their military will on their neighbours." Reference was made to the same subject by Sir Josepli Ward, who said it was undoubtedly a fact that tho Germans had intended to make a big profit out of the war, and that one of the prizes they had iu view was Now Zealand. They coveted New Zealand, because there was no country in tho world more attractive for rettlcment, and the Germans wanted territory in which to settle their own emigrants. The nature of German aspirants had been indicated plainly enough by Dr. Solf not many months ago. 'In March, when it was thought in Berlin that the Gorman armies were goinc to reach Paris. Dr. Soil', said publicly, when speaking of the, German islands in the Pacific, that Germany was after booty. What booty was Germany after? The restoration of the islands formerly in German hands would not have been booty. The Germans wanted something moro than that. They wanted New Zealand, and probably they intended to take Australia also. They wanted all the outside territory they coulcl got, and they had expected the war to give •them the chance to satisfy themselves at the expense of the nations they attacked.