WHAT HUNS NOW WANT

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 June 1917, Page 3

WHAT HUNS NOW WANT

NOT BELGIUM, BUT BRITISH

ATRICA.

German's Gott-strafe-England party, which includes all the Huns still unbilled, opened the New Year in schism. It is quarrelling about the best way to - "punish" Britain for "causing the war" and "robbing us of our Colonies and the freedom of the sea." The Navy Leaguers want the strafing to take the form of annexation of Belgium, They demand this, in order to be able to attack Britain "at will." The Colonial enthusiasts, who tliihk that Germany's future lies not "upon" the water but across the seas," declare that conquest of Belgium, will not punish England "directly enough." Something must be "carved out of her vitals," according to Herr Emil Zimmermann, who locates those organs in the heart of British Africa. 'WE DON'T WANT CANADA. Herr Zimmerman, who used to be political editor of the "Lokal-Anzei-gor," and before entering that branch of the Government service was a Colonial official in Africa, airs his views in the "Vossiche Zeitung." They are diverting enough to justily quotation in detail. "Both England and Russia," says Zimmerman "hold territory belonging to us and our allies, but they do not talk about punishing us by permanently retaining it. They, like France, notwithstanding that the military position is unfavourable for them, want to get at us directly. In Germany, however, those who pretend to be the bitterest foes of England want to allow France and Belgium to do the paying for England by. taking Belgium and perhaps a French Channel, port (i.e., Calais.) ~/,'Thc British lion, of course, is not yet laid low, and it is not the German ctistom to divide the hide of a beast which is still running at large. But it .is,.extremely strange that in one of th f e quarters which are constantly clamouring that U-boat ruthlessncss will bring-;England to her knees the. opinion iSy£xpressod that our principal foe can onjy^be,indirectly chastised. Without any exaggerated impor-1 tanpe- to the U-boat I am convinced that England will be defeated. We shall; nijf hl .smash her to bits (zertrummern or.even compel her to sue for a humiliating peace; but England must be brought to confess that she is unable tp ( -continue the war. When we have the British lion so far he will hayc \q settle for himself instead of lelling • others pay. j fl ' 0 know that we cannot annex Canada, South Africa,, or Australia. But dqes ,not England possess in Africa the Coynes of Nigeria, the old Coast, BriEast Africa, Uganda and the SudEngland's policy Jooks to the foundation.- of a great African Empore. An firjny. .of African mercenaries is to help England to defend India. Only British in Africa, where soldiers wore secured fur

iihiAMarljke qualities, enabled England's ajLli&fLeo with Russia. Without strong possessions in Africa, England would haye to tremble for India and look for aljie/fl -against Russia As long as En<rlasd' was not strong in Africa, Turkey was ; jher natural ally in respect of liialia-.j* Only after the conquest of the Sudan'and the South African War did England'become Turkey's foe.

CENTRAL AFRICA MUST BE OURS.

a if England loses this war she must IoW a part of her African Colonies. This will compel her to change her ■pbmj and resume towards Russia the policy' of the Bismarckian era. We ni i fst V^ cstroy for cver En g la nd's coalition*'plans against us. That will be just punishment for her. Let us cease comparing the present times and war to' the Napoleonic Avars against England. There must be no NapoleonicEllwand peace or any peace designed simply to better one 's own position for a''next war.' The peace must not be confined to frontier alterations i n Europe It must embrace the whole wj>rld, just as the Avar does. The main tl/ing is not that we shall be able the bettor to attack England in a 'next war.' The important tiling is that wc. force her to revolutionise her entire policy and that, we compel the whole world to take up a different attitude towards Germanism throughout the globe.'

•"England must lose her Colonies in Central Africa. They must become parts of a Great German Empire in Africa. EngUarid must furthermore be compelled to indemnity all those Germans in our Colonial territory an j j n foreign countries whom she has so ' shamelessly robbed. These Germans, then, ivo shall assimiliate in one vast self-contained German Colonial Empire. They will constitute a sturdy foundation for a splendid, flourishing imperial realm in Central Africa. HIT ENGLAND DIRECTLY. "What we must demand from Belgium and France is a thing for. itself. Let us not confuse these claims with those we have against England. Let us not, above all, imagine that a rev o ] u .

tion would only come if England directly hit. »She can only be so hit — that is to say, her so-called 'encircling policy, can only be broken up—if she is no longer able to stretch herself out in Africa. The Anglo-French arrangement of 1904 for partition of Africa — East and South Africa, English; West Africa, French —must be smashed. The moment it is the Western Powers, especially England, will be forced to main war object, the prevention of fresh coalitions against Germany, will be best achieved."