THE GERMAN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 August 1917, Page 6

THE GERMAN.

A VOICE FEOM AFKICA.

Major von St. Paul-Illaire, "of East Africa," contributes to the' BheinischWestfalische Zeitung a pathetic appeal to the Germans to "hold out": —

"We East Africans demand, as energetically as any other Germans, that our people hold out. We will have nothing to do with a dirty peace after the Wilsonian pattern. We do not seek it with the idea of one day being able to attack England in India from a TJ-boat base in German East Africa. We shall be saved the trouble of doing that by Japan, who will certainly put an. end to England's sovereignity in India. Our heart's task will be to break for ever England's arbitrary tyanny at sea, which has become utterly intolerable to all seafaring nations, to put an end to her piracies in all the world's oceans ,and to establish a glorious freedom and equality for all. As a people which, above all others, is inspired with the alternistic desire to benefit its neighbours near and car, we xnrst acquit ourselves of this great tnsk. in the first place to achi3ve the objects here stated, and, in the second place, so that our colonies may henceforth be constituted as beseems our national importance. First, therefore, Jet us force England to recognise our might."