THE WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1916, Page 4

THE WEATHER.

FORECAST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Present indications are for strong south-easterly to north-easterly winds. Expect cloudy and unsettled weather, with rain, especially over the North Island. The barometer is unsteady, with a, falling tendency.

nation" (paraphrasing the words of Treitschke), and "the weapon of Almighty God'' fov the destruction of an effete and decadent race. The next war, according to German writers during the last (ifteen years, was to be one for reclaiming into ''the fold of tJcrmanism the many millions of persons of German descent, of German or half-German (speech, who are scattered all over the world," and was to include the Flemish population of Belgium, the whole of ■/the. population of Holland, about half that of Switzerland, and "the inhabitants of a long narrow strip of Eastern France, also of German descent.'' It was a pretty programme truly, but only covering an instalment of Germany's actual" designs. Her advocates recognising that England blocked the way, began plotting and scheming against Britain's peace of mind and the integrity of the .British Umpire. The '•'All-Ger-man League," which has been in existence since 1801, began to advocate war with England, and lias ever since, through its numerous subsidised journals, '-breathed the ideal of aggressive war into Germany." The fate reserved for England and the Empire, in the event of a successful war, baa been laid down by the League as: (1) The surrender and Germanisation of the British colonies; (2) the handing over of the British Fleet (or what remains of it when the. German Grand Fleet has clipped its wings and asserted the supremacy of the German Superman); (3) the payment of an enormous sum of money to be called a "war indemnity." England and her colonies would be garrisoned by German armies; their industries would be placed in the Hands of German Directors of Industries, and Britain itself would be incorporated in some sort of federation of the New German Empire. As Mr. Fletclier points out, "long before any such peace could be dictated, Germany would have become mistress of the ports of Belgium, Holland and Northern France," and it is probable that "one of the main reasons impelling her to the shameless violation of Belgium with which she began this war, was a desire to get bold of Antwerp and Ostend, as bases of attack upon England." She has possession of both these ports, but she is as far off a successful invasion of England as ever.