WHAT THE HUNS NOW WANT.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1917, Page 6

WHAT THE HUNS NOW WANT.

NOT BELGIUM, BUT BRITISH AFRICA. German's Gott-strafe-England party, which includes all the Huns still untitled, opened the New Year in schism. It is quarrelling about the best way to "punish" Britain for "causing the war" and "robbing us of our colonies and the freedom of the sea."

■The Navy Leaguers want the strafing to take the form of annexation of Belgium. They demand this in order to be able to attack Britain "at will.' The colonial enthusiasts, who think that Germany's future lies not "upon the water but across the seas," declare that conquest of Belgium will not punish England "directly enough." Something must be "carved out of her vitals," according to Herr Emil Zimmermann, who locates those organs in the heart of British Africa. "WE DON'T WANT CANADA." Herr Zimmerann, who used to be political editor of the Lokal-Anzeiger, and before entering that branch of the Government service was/ a colonial official in Africa, airs his views in the Vossiche Zeitung. They are diverting enough to justify quotation in detail. "Both England suid Russia," says Zimmermann, "hold territory belonging to U3 and our Allies, but they do not talk about punishing us by permanently retaining it. They, like France, notwithstanding that the military position is unfavorable for them, want to get at us directly. In Germany, however, those who pretend to be the bitterest of England want to allow France and Belgium to do the paying for England ,by taking Belgium and perhaps a French Channel port (i.e. Calais). "The British lion, of course, is not yet laid low, and it is not the German oustom to divide the hide of a beast ■■which is still running at large. But it is extremely strange that in one of the quarters which are constantly clamouring that U-boat ruthlessness will bring England to her knees the opinion is ex* pressed that our principal foe can only be indirectly chastised. Without attributing any exaggerated importance to the U-boat, I am convinced that England will be defeated. We shall not smash her to bits (zertrummern) or even compel her to sue for a humiliating peace; 'but England must be brought to confess that she is unable to continue the war. When we have got the British lion so far he will have to settle for himself instead of letting others pay. "I know that we cannot annex Canada, South Africa, or Australia. But does not England possess in Africa the colonies of Nigeria, the Gold Coast, British East Africa, Uganda., and the Soudan? England's policy looks to the foundation of a great African Empire. An army of African missionaries is to help England to defend India. Only British expansion in Africa, where soldiers were secured for excelling the Indians in warlike qualities, enabled England's alliance with Russia. Without strong possessions in Africa, England would have to tremble for India and look for allies against Russia. As long as England was not strong in Af rica, Turkey was hpr natural ally in respect of India. Only after the conquest of the Soudan and the South African War did England become Turkey's foe.

CENTRAL AFRICA MUST BE OURS. "If England lose 3 this war she must lose a part of her African colonies. This will compel her to change her policy arid resume towards Russia the po'icy of the Bismarckian era, We must fl>stroy for ever England's coalition plans against us. That will be just punishment for her. Let us cease comparing the prosent times and war to the Napoleonic wars against England. There must be no Napoleonic-English peace or any peace designed simply to better one's own position for a 'next war.' The peace must not be confined to frontier alterations in Europe. It must embrace the whole world, just as the' war does. The main thing is not that we shall be able the better to attack England in a 'next war.' The important thing is that we force her to revolutionise her entire policy and that we compel the whole world to take up a different attitude towards Germanism throughout the globe. "England must lose her colonies in Central Africa. They must become parts of a Great German Empire in Africa. England must furthermore be compelled to idejfmifyj.all those Germans in out Colontij; terjj&jipry aid in foreign countries whom She has so shamelessly robbed. These Germans, tnen we shall assimjliate in one vast self-contained German Colonial Empire...; They will constitute a : sturdy foundation for a splendid, flourishing imperial realm in Central Africa. - .

; lILT ENGLAND DIRECTLY. I " ':'■■■■ ' ...-_.,, "What we must demand from Belgium and France Is a thing for itself. Let us not confuse these claims with 'those we have against England. Let us not, above all, imagine that a revolution of world-political conditions would ;be brought about By the occupation ot • Belgium. Such a revolution would only come if England is directly h.'t. She can only be so hit—that is to say, ho so-called 'encircling policy' can only be broken up—if she is no longer-able to stretch herself out in Africa. '-,' The Anglo Trench agreement of 1904 -for the partition of Africa—East and South Africa. English; West Africa, Frenchmust be smashed. The moment it is the Western -Powers, especially England, will be forced to adopt another prevention of fresh coalitions against attitude. Thus our main object will be best achieved."