WHAT GERMANY MUST LOSE BY THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 September 1917, Page 2

WHAT GERMANY MUST LOSE BY THE WAR.

"The economic loss which Germany has says "Fabricus " in the "Fortnightly," "by arraying against herself the whole civilised world is absolutely unimaginable. By infinite patience, endless labour, and a good deal of trickery and intrigue, Germany had succeeded in conquering vast foreign markets, in acquiring countless industrial and commercial establishments forests, mines; factories, warehouses, etc. The vast interests which were built up by German business men and workers in the course of a century [-will largely be lost through expropriation and through the .hatred of Germany whicn" has been generated throughout the world. Before the war Germany's foreign investments were estimated to amount to the gigantic sum of almost £2,000,000, but the present value, of these investments was considered to be small if compared with their potential value. Germany's most valuable colonies were not situated in South-W,est Africa and in Bast Africa, but throughout the British Empire Russia, France, Belgium, Italy, South America, China, etc. They were their Indies, and they have been destroyed by Germany's policy of calculated brutality and inhumanity. "The present war is not merely \a war of "nations. Rightly considered, it is a war of race's. Germany, in going to war challenged not merely her three opponents, France,' Russia, and England, but th,p Latin, the Slavonic, and the Anglo-Saxon races. "By arraying herself against the whole civilised world by outraging the conscience of all mankind, Germany has destroyed the future greatness of the German race. That race ■has had a great past, but it may not have a great future unless a new German race should arise and reform itself. Only a revolution in Germany and the merciless punishment by the Germans of those who are responsible for the present war and the innumerable crimes committed by the German army can alter the opinion of the world as to the true character of the German race."