Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917. COVETING BRITISH COLONIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1682, 6 March 1917, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917. COVETING BRITISH COLONIES.

AN article entitled “Our Wur Aims Against England” has boon published in the Vussisehe Zeitung, the author being Heir Emil Zimmerman. While not professing’ to attach an exaggerated importance to submarine warfare, he is convinced that England will be defeated. He proceeds :—“We shall not, annihilate her, and we shall not defeat her to such an extent that she will have humbly to sue for peace, but England will have to declare herself unable any longer to continue the war, and when we get the British lion to that stale he must pay himself and must not lie allowed to let others pay for him. To me it is obvious that we cannot annex Canada, South Africa, or Australia, but does not England possess in Africa such colonies as Nigeria, the Gold Coast, British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan ? The policy of England has aimed at .founding a great African Empire, whence armies of African soldiers could be drawn to defend India. Only her acquisitions in Africa, where she obtains soldiers far superior to the Indians as regards warlike qualities, have made possible England's agreement with Russia.” Herr Zimmerman proceeds that, the terms of peace should not produce any alteration of European frontiers, but should extend beyond Europe. With regard to this he says: —“The main point is not that we should be in a better position to attack England in the next war, but that we should compel her to alter her whole policy and that generally we should compel the world to adopt a different attitude towards Germans all the world over. . . . England should lose her colonies in Central Africa, which must become portions of a great German dependency on that Continent. Further, England must be compelled to compensate all Germans abroad and in German colonics who have been shamelessly robbed by her. We will incorporate these Germans in a great German colonial State. What we have (o demand from Belgium and France js a matter altogether apart from these demands on England.” Zimmerman "’ill soon have his eyes opened!.