GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 August 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

o GERMANS' PROPAGANDA. i AMERICANS BELITTLED. DOMINIONS “WAR WEARY.” LONDON, July 22. Reuter’s correspondent at British headquarters says the following amusing official mis-statement has been received by wireless from Berlin: “Australians taken prisoner lately with the Americans were surprised that soldiers so little trained and having no idea of trench warfare like the Americans were allowed to take part : in the attack. The Australians ar* s convinced that the Americans can no longer be regarded as of decisive im- ; portance to the termination of the r war.” The Cologne Gazette ponderously • attempts to prove that the British ' Dominions are filled with discontent • and anxiety about their special war ' aims, and to represent the Dominion ■ Ministers in London as struggling . vainly with the Imperial Government • regarding the adoption of a satisfac- ■ tcry Imperial policy. The paper maintains that Germany should find ample opportunity to reap the fruits of these British dissensions, and thereby recover her lost colonies without much difficulty. The journal says that Australia is showing signs of war-weariness, and New Zealand is “seriously lukewarm.* 1 It represents Britain as wholly concerned with the Ipnd bridge between Egypt and India, which it admits she has pretty well attained, and asserts that Britain will not be diverted from that by any other war aims of the allies or her colonies. The paper proceeds to urge that the best way for Germany to get back her colonies is to bring strong political and military pressure to bear upon the Dominions themselves. For example, it is from the South African Union that Germany must rei cover her two principal colonies, and, [ therefore, Germany must concentrate ■ her political attention upon South Africa in order to bring about the do-

tion of the return of these colonies* The article concludes by declaring that a successful advance against Egypt would be the best means of smashing the unity of the British Empire. NEWS FROM ADEN. Received 8.50 a.m. LONDON, August 1. The War Office reports from Aden state that cavalry dispersed an enemy party westward of Shiksistman. TAXING HORSE SALES. Received 11.20 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 1 The luxury tax committee propose a forty pence tax in the pound on all purchases of thoroughbred racehorses with a value above £l5O TYPHOID RAGING. IN BULGARIA. Received 11.20 a.m AMSTERDAM, August 1 Typhoid is raging in Bulgaria, especially in the army, and already thousands of deaths have been imported, The medical service has broken down There are two eases in the Royal household at Sofia TURKEY'S BREAK. TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES. “IF IT IS TRUE." WELLINGTON, August 1. The Hon. T. M. Wilford, whose lectures on the war always command wide public, attention, made interest, ing commcut at the Harbour Board Conference to-day on the reported break between Turkey and Germany, “If it is only true/’ said the Minister, “the result of this news is at present incalculable. The influence on the German public’s attitude towards the’ war will be astonishing. Germany is largely a country of business men, , who are not carrying the' strain and ; burden of war for national glory only.’ ; World power for them rj means larger ; markets, and this is their justification . for the suffering, ; and sacrifice they are • making. Remove this object, and jus- ’ tiheation of this war to, them is gone, . How does the German commercial ] man look at the question? He looks j for the Ottoman Empire within the . i German zollverein. Turkey is his goal, [ Hie excuse for their losses. In Asia Minor, i ncluding Anatolia, are the prizes he seeks. Turkey, he thinks, to-day is his beat German colony. It is his market. He thought the Paris ” Conference could not affect it. It Is one of the largest, most promising 1 markets of the world. “Turkey,” says Vladimir Jobotinsky, ‘is the ultima spes of the German business man in Germany’s -Mittel Europa.’ Turkey Is •the alternative to overseas expansion, the vital link ,the spring of the clock, work. If you strike it successfully the whole Eastern Ottoman Empire dream collapses, Egyptian and African dominance crumbles into dust. Turkey is not only an ally whose collapse would weaken Germany’s strength; It is the reason for her acts and moves for the Scbrian ultimatum and the deli claration of war. Mobs in the streets i. of Germany may be dazzled by the German troops camping in Belgium, France, or Poland, hut the leading y j men of Germany know that BelC gium must be restored after the war. r. [ What encourages the Junkers, the e j Hoheuzollerns, and the fiananciers, •i is the Berlin-Eagdad route, via Con- „ stantinople and the rich districts o* o i Anatolia. The invasion of Anatolia,

or occupation of it under agreement, would mean the loss of all that makes the war worth while for Germany. Germany has tried to swallow Turkey as a whole, but we hope, if the nows is true, that Turkey has at least seen through the ruse. Let me predict that Turkey will never suffer for the long predominance of one foreign Power. This, I think, the Allies realise.”