Germany and New Zealand.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 February 1916, Page 3

Germany and New Zealand.

Although there has been no war shot fired in New Zealand or Zeppelin bomb upon helpless homes, New Zealand was a marked country so far as Germany was concerned. The Prussian militarists pointed one finger of their mailed fist at this Dominion and nothing will save New Zealand from Prussian terrorism should Germany ever win this war. We quote the following paragraph from the Luneburgerheide Nachrichten, a German newspaper

“As soon a Germany has command of the sea, which will not be before long, we would advise our Government to turn its attention towards an island named New Zealand. It would not take much to get possession of it, because they have only boys as soldiers, and are too far away from England to get any help from there. It is a very fertile land ; it produces an enormous quantity of butter, cheese, beef, mutton and wool, all products much needed in oir country. The country is also rich in gold, coal, oil, and other minerals. The first nation of the world —Germany —ought to be in possession of it.” This is first hand information of Germany’s knowledge of our resources and the Germans have proved themselves too farseeing business men to let the chance slip by if it ever comes their way. No doubt there are hundreds of Germans specially sent outfrom Germany of recent years for the sole purpose of being on the spot and ready to aid, by spying, deception, and any other plank of the secret service platform, the Prussian colonisation of New Zealand. There are 20,000 Germans and descendants in New Zealand and that will give some idea of the position here. Few people seem to realise what their British liberty means to them. They have only to think of Belgium and Alsace to know what fate will overtake thent should they fail to send every availabe man to the front. Conscription to our mind, is essential. It is the one course that will result in sufficient men being sent to relegate the barbarous ghouls of Germany to their proper place, and preserve the liberties to our fair Dominions across the seas. —Bluff Press.