IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 18 July 1917, Page 3

IN GERMANY.

THE OPINIONS OF ITS PRESS. IN THE FAIRYLAND OF "WHEN." The Rheinisch-Westfalische Zeitung says: "When we shall have aeheived the final victory against England, the basis of our peace terms must be represented by one great, all-overshadow-ing colo'nial claim. Not only must we again possess ourselves of that splendid field of emigration, German southwest Africa, but we must extend it right up to the limits of the Boer States The whole German colonising power in Africa takes its origin, in the Southwest, and no schemes for possession in Central Africa, not even those of the very widest scope, can compensate us for the loss of the German South-west territories, South Africa must become German, or nothing German whatever will remain on the African Continent. It is only by freeing the Boer States by incorporating ourselves with them both georgaphically and militarily, that we can provide ourselves with an independent source of strength in Africa, whence power and Kulture will flow outward to gladden and fructify the world."

To which it might be added that Africa has had a bitter taste of that Kultur. Wherever the German has set his foot he has left the Mark of the Beast. The helpless blacks have been flayed alive, dismembered joint by joint roasted at the stake, tortured by every foul means that occurred to the depraved minds of the German fiends entrusted with the work of "colonisation." Africa needs no more Kultur.

DEADLY ILLUSIONS. The Volkswacht, of Breslau, voices a strong condemnation of all these illusions of colonisation and conquest: "It is more than time that the frightful international massacre should cease 1 To attain this object, Government and people must hesitate at no sacrifice. What are the sacrifices required? They are not sacrifices of honour or freedom, country or property, but merely sacrifices of illusions of false conceptions of ambitious dreams. A way must be forced for the truth to penetrate all sections of the population that all such vain imaginings of conquest constitute a heinous sin against the people compared with -which the attacks of the foreign foe are but as innocent pastimes. It is no use waiting for the angels to roll the stone from the grave. We can only free ourselves from our sufferings by our own action.- We must roll up our sleeves and thrust down into the Tealm of infamy and oblivion those who by their wretched and selfish policy and their immeasurable ambition have brought the German Empire within an ace of perdition.' '