GERMAN COLONIAL POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 15 January 1914, Page 5

GERMAN COLONIAL POLICY.

TEST OP A'NATION'S SUCCESS. Uy Cable—Press Association- -Copyright Ji-cceived H, iO.l!, 1 ) p.m. London, January 14. Presiding at the Colonial institute on the occasion of a paper being read by .Professor Bonn, of Munich, upon tierman colonial polity, Lord Milner said that the manufacturing countries of the temperate zone were increasingly dependent upon the tropics. The nation which best promoted the welfare or its subject people, would, in the end, be the most successful. Professor Bonn .said that Germany only spent 70 million* sterling on her colonies in 12 years, and merely scratched the surface of the real problem. The chartered companies bad failed, owing to their ludicrously small capital. The .difficulty had been the necessity for developing Germany at the same time as her colonies. The German peasant was not an ideal settler. Africa, which wanted men and canital, had a capacity for managing natives. Germany made some extremely silly mistakes, especially in protecting home tig-' riculture even against the competition of her colonies. She wanted to create daughter States in Africa similar to those of Australia and Canada, and the result was a lmge native rising, costing twenty millions. Germany sought to assume the functions of Providence, and tried to exterminate the natives, who, from lack of wisdom, were goaded to rebellion. The causes for retarding colonial development were rapidly disappearing. Germany had lent foreign countries a. thousand millions in evolving an enterprising and adventurous upper-claw policy, and sending out white jetllurs to be abandoned.