GERMAN DESIGNS ON BRAZIL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 6

GERMAN DESIGNS ON BRAZIL.

diplomat warns America. In a statement recently made to the' London correspondent of the New York Tribune, Sir William Haggard, K.C.M.G., until his retirement last year his Majesty's Minister to Brazil, warns America against the menace of German expansion in South America, particularly in Brazil. ISir William had just received by mail from liio Grande do Sul, the Brazilian province mo* thickly populated tjy Germans, a letter which told of agfgWveness on the part of Germans there. Their attitude was such that the a.uthofties had to call thorn to order; there was a threatened attack on German business houses, and troops had to suppcesfl the trouble. "The (Brazilians dread German victory." said Sir William's correspondent, a foreigner, not English, "a; much as anyone, as it "would simply mean the appropriation of this province."

iSir William then told of the existence of a map, 'published in Germany, which sets forth as German territory certain regions, including Southern Brazil, '.'ailing it "Antarctic Germany,'' and he called attention to the claim of the Pan-German Union on South America, notably Brazil, .as "our inheritance in one of the richest quarters of the globe."

Continuing, Sir William said: "Had the mass -of Americans noticed the German progapanda throughout South lAmcrica, especially in Brazil . . . . . that there are GOO Gorman s:l ools in [Brazil, and did Americans know, as I do. from successive German reprcsenatives in Brazil and from my own observations, that those s"hools which are entirely conducted in flcm-Aii, are directed, as they have been for years, by the German Government, through their diplomatic representatives; had they seen the map of 'Antarctic Germany,' which represents those regions as German; had they heard of the, Pan-Gev-man Union's claim to 'our inheritance

in one of the richest quarters of the globe'—did they know that eminent German writers like : Dr. Eisenhartt had represented that Germany was going to deal with England and tho United States consecutively, they would realise that all these efforts were not purely philanthvopical, but in preparation for a challenge of the Monroe Doctrine by an invasion of Southern Brazil when the psychological moment should arrive. That would be now—wlion England was dealt "with. GERMAN PLAN OV WORLDCONQUEST.

"Americans would then further understand that this would not only involve a direct attack on the Monroe Poctrine, but would form the apex of the great German plan of world-conquest which is now being attempted; they would further realise the 'fact thai 'what now stands between Germany and her attack on the 'Monroe Doctrine, and even between t'liu United States and the menace to their very existence, arc our ships in the North Sea and in the OCCftri and the 'battle-weary and 'bloodstained men' in the trenches,"

"The. Germans in the. Southern -Brazil provinces—Rio Grande, do :Sul, 'Parana and 'Santa Cafarina—are generally estimated at 1,000.000 persons. "The large population already there is carefully nursed from Germany, which pap and directs the clergymen and the schoolmasters," added Sir William. "A German representative in Tiio told me one day that lie had just succeeded in petting through the. Customs House, free of duty, 10,000 Gei-man school books sent to him from Germany for the. colonists. Tt is hardly to be supposed that this was an isolated ease or that all tins fostering aid lias nothing but a sentimental object. "In the States most populated by Germans there arc not only scattered settlements, but towns, bearing German names, with German churches and schools—mainly supported from home — German newspapers; in fact, all the surroundings of German life. I have been rocpatedly told that many of the. children, even those 'born there, cannot speak 'Portuguese—the language of the wuntry.

i: A!l this," concluded Sir William, "points in only one direction, which is the eventual occupation of those territories by Germany."