AFTER THE STORM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 79, 22 August 1914, Page 3

AFTER THE STORM.

TWO .MAPS OF THE WOULD. GERMANY'S DREAM. 'Xach dem Sturm." This is tlio title of a startling publication issued in Germany a few ..ears ago. It is intended to lie prophetic. U-jally, it' sihcwis the tremendous conlideiice of the military caste in Prussia. With the publication arc two maps of tin- world. The first is entitled "liefore the Storm." It depicts tin- world exactly as it is at oresent. with Hie lirit-i-li and French colonies marked in red, Kn-ssia green, the Triple Alliance lilue, and China and Japan yellow, and America purple. Tim second map represents the world as it will be (according to Cermanv) "Alter the Storm." The first thing noticeable is thlit England and France are. -horn of the whole of their colonics, and i all that remains are two little red spots irepresenting flreat Britain am! France. ) France loses none of her territory in 1 Kmope, but all her colonics are colore.i { blue, to show that, the Triple Alliance j lias annexed them. Curiously enough, i this coincides with what Sir Edward J tiro, said in the House oi Commons, j Australia is colored yellow show i;iat ' the '"yellow peril" lias crvstalli-ed into fact. Africa is nearly all blue, with the exception of Cape Colonv and the T'ansvaal. which will lie an independent republic. Canada is colored I ' purple, to show that the I'nitcd ' Slates lias possession of tin- Dominion. I Ireland is an independent state. India ! 'iocs to Kussia. Avitb all the debatable I land between the Caspian Sea and the . Indo-Ohincse peninsula. Wit a this r.■- j I adjustment, Germany's ambition-; dr;":n j !< if i; great colonial empire i< presumed t.i | lie consummated. j This remarkable publication was <itained by Mr 11. K. I'ratten. ot S'.dnev. when on a visit to (Icrmany. It wa- obtained with dilliculty, for when he allied for it he wiii refused a ei.-iv. Mr i'latteii spoke at the lib-lie Town 11;:11 last week, and told the'audience what evidently in the minds oi tic C. rill ollic/.'i's wlien t.'liev t/);i.-tc 1 " !'■» t Day." A readjustment of the whole leap of the world would en.-ue if Germany became the dominant l';ive'.\ Incidental!;'. Mi' I'ratten toid (if us journey across Siberia, with a l-enean 1 ienien int on fiHoimii from l-ae; Jii, j in C'Uri. A. the end of t !iy Mine v i iij oll'icer surprised liini bv si >' n;; Mi".! !-nine dav t.bc\ might nvvt in Ai-tra!ii. (Tlu> officer \v.i< asked :l li- 'vi-s "o'iic;jt 1 •• a Ivilidr', mrt i' ' rc;i|i'"l. '■oil no: 1 l":' c b- '.Vvc v.iii; iuy soldiers,''