GERMANY'S COLONIES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 February 1917, Page 2

GERMANY'S COLONIES.

"It is unthinkable," said Mr Lloyd George in his address at Carnarvon, " that the great German territories can be disposed of after the war without consult" I ing the Dominions, since they i have shed their blood in acquiring them." Mr Lloyd George's statement does not go so far as that of his colleague, Mr Walter j Long, who said : " Lst no man think these territories (Germany's colonies) will ever return to German rule." But, in effect, the assurances both of the Prime Minister and the Colonial Secretary corns to tiiß_sani3 thing, because if the Dominions have any voice in the disposal of the captured colonies, the latter will asver O3co ne German possessions again. And that iofc b?cause the Dominion? arj sasking payment for what they have clone, but because Germ ki rule has been proved to bo a dingar to the world's peace, and the wider its extension t'li'ou^ 1! t'i3 ! \yj.-ld, the big* >r danger that it cuise-. Afcor t'.io w.ir tiere will h; no German colonial empire.