GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 28 January 1909, Page 3

GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.

.■ ;^--."l)EBATE''"Il?:--THE-T^eHS I fA'G{. [PKESS ASSOCUXIpN.^OPXEiaHT.J i S : - : BERLIN,' Wednes. Invthe' 'Reichstag; after: Herr Beth-nianri-Hi>UtVeg, Minister for the Inter.i«ri?MdSfierrv?>ernterg, Minister tor the Colonies,. had spoken to ths uovenment -Bill .subsidising -tie North ; ifiermaniloyd'e: South Sea service, it ; ,; waV referred'' to a committee. •r; : -"Most -parties supported, the subsidy, ■^^6wing'U'iajßntiißh-:;and .Japanese compe--1 1'" ".';'.:. :■/ fHerr'Hahn, a Conservative, remarked ■;tEat^.witl^ut:. wishing to .say. a; word .; against:--. Britain, it was natural that Australians ehould. hot view German development with, satisfaction, and if j.'lke German line were discontinued the - ; causo>: would: certainly emanate from Australia. .'".-'.;,..- .-.-. Honnanri, a Radical, and a "- inember of." the People's party; declared that Germany was in. a comparatively favourable position in regard to Australia^ which in German opinion was following- quite an; erroneous and nar-row-minded policy, in aiming to exclude, tte competition of firei<?u "labourers, -without whom the deVslopntent "of Australia, was impossible. Tilafc Wrof old- _ reason jor Ger-. ifliini . ieizing: . any. opportunity of ex-' iractiiig '! . wSat: .a^vafltag©' they could ifQßi "^Sal ■liinaticin. , ',?,.;' SgJnle.f, NationaL Liberal, suppj>rtcjl o^ the/ ground- that inflnenpe?w^s exercised by: British freight cfiargerf>ott tne : Germah : c6pA trade.