A GERMAN DREAM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 271, 1 May 1917, Page 4

A GERMAN DREAM.

The ulterior designs of the Germans for a futur« world in keeping with their ambitions are well revealed in an incident related by the Rev J. T, Parfit, at a lecture given at Haslemere, England, in February, and the same should remove any doubt as to the Kaiser's motive in pressing Austria to attack Servia and so precipitating the world's convulsion. The rev. gentleman stated that when he came to England as a refugee from the East, where he had held the position of "Vicar of Mesopotamia and Rural Dean of the Garden of Eden," he took a house which had been occupied by a German, who left England hurriedly two days before war was declared. In the house he found a geographic globe made 16 years ago, and on that map all the projected railways '* were clearly marked, with the straight line for German trade from Berlin to the Persian Gulf, with a continuation over Southern Persia, right clown to Bombay, from Bombay to Madras, with steamship lines thence 'German, of course) to Port Darwin in Australia. The creation may well bo asked what would the British Empire be worth if that dream were realised ';