GERMANY AND BRAZIL

Grey River Argus, 7 April 1911, Page 8

GERMANY AND BRAZIL

Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Ma3s., Ut S. A

A NEW GERMANY,

1 here, are at present three good cable routes to .South America. The concession " for the new line was granted by the Brazilian Government to a German company in June, 1908. The English route runs almost direct from Land's . End to Rio de Janeiro. The rate by all three routes is_,about 4s a' word. German interests in Brazil, as is well known, are considerable. In the provnee of Rio Grande do Sul, for instance, 250,000, or 25 per cent of the population, are Germans, and it is estimated that there are all told half a million or so of German citizens in Brazil. German institutions prevail in many parts of the country Germany's trade with Brazil is at present only half that of England, but she comes second in order, and is £1,000,000 ahead of the United States, which she passed in 1906. In 1908 German imports from Brazil amounted to ,£9,939,000 and the exports to that country totalled £4,---220,000. Ten years before thef figures were £4,525,000 and ,£2,235,000 respectively. Three German shipping companies lines, the- Hamburgbouth American, the North German J_ioyd, and the Kosmos amicably divide German trade among them.

The large interests Germany has acquired in Brazil have caused from time to time a good deal of anxiety as- to her intentions. None of the exponents of German Weltpolitik con templates violent annexation, but all contend that in some form or other a German State of many millions of people must be encouraged to spring up- in tSbuth Brazil, ' and that the German Government must, "with the greatest possible vigour,", intervene on behalf of its (ex-) subjects whenever necessary. As the German settlers lose no time in becoming Brazilian citzens after their arrival, and thus are altogether outside German jurisdiction, it is difficult, as a recent writer points out, to see how Germany could intervene