LOST COLONIAL EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1917, Page 5

LOST COLONIAL EMPIRE.

'HUN PROFESSOR'S WAIL. Times .Service. ■, Received May 2, 8.50 p.m. London, May lv Professor Preuss, director of the German New Guinea Companjt, writing in tho Hamburger Naclirichten, contends that Germany must re-establish herself in the Pacific as the last opportunity of preventing a settlement of the interests of Japan, America, Britain, and especially Australian interests. It would, he asserts, be an unforgivable mistake to abandon the South Sea colonies and withdraw from the Pacific, so long as Japan, Australia and America were hostile. He sees in Japan a dangerous ,competitor and opponent of Germany. There was no occasion to budge from the Pacific. The disappearance of the German flag from New Guinea and the Pacific Isles would mean irreparable loss of prestige throughout the East. If they lost their naval bases tho Germans would Tank as mere carriers and traders, in whose faces the door would always foe slammed. OBJECT FRANKLY AVOWED. Received 'May 10 p.m. London, May 2. Professor Preuss, in his article in the Hamburger Nachriehtcn, candidly explains that Germany's wholo object in the {Pacific must be to make mischief. SIGNIFICANT EMBARGO ON NEWS. Paris, May 1. German newspapers are no longer reaching Austria or Switzerland. The Austrian newspapers do not contain any German hews, except from Wolff's Agency, REDUCED STRENGTH OF BATTALIONS.

Paris, May 1. Le Petit Parisien Rtates that documents taken from prisoners show that the Prussian War Ministry is reducing the number of effectives by 200 per battalion. RIPE FOR REVOLUTION. Petrograd, May 1. A Russian anarchist named Rabinovitch, who escaped from Germany, has arrived in Stockholm. He states that the revolutionary feeling in Germany is strong and extensive, even in the army. The soldiers who refused to fire on the demonstrators at Kiel were summoned and 07 were killed. Rabinovitch is convinced that a revolution is not far distant. HUNGARIAN REFORMS REFUSED. P.ome, May 1. The Corriore d'ltala states that, in response to the petition of the Hungarian Opposition, the Emperor agreed to grant concessions involving the reorganisation of the constitution, but Count Tisza objected, saying, "It means suicide and the end of the dynasty.

MORE GERMAN TRICKS. Potrograd, May 1. Reports from the front state that German aeroplanes are continually dropping proclamations stating, "England has forced the Czar to abdicate. England is jyour enemy. Germany is ready for peace and invites Russian soldiers to join their German comrades." DEPARTURE OF CHINESE AMBASSADOR. Paris May 1, Tho Chinese Legation, witli his staff, is leaving Berlin to-day.