GERMANS IN TONG.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1918, Page 8

GERMANS IN TONG.

"\vk »o \"ot want riii-M." • Auckland, I'd) (i. Tin? Prem.iT of Tonga has submitted to t lie King nf Tonga a report on 1 lie foreign policy, in which lie says he eonsiiiers it his duty to lay before the King what lie believes to be the views of the Tonga 11 people about the (Hermans. "We do not want them,"' says the report, ''because they form part of a nation whose records of rapine, murder, and brutality lmv:; never been exeeeiled, We would rather see Tonga cleared of them. 1 hope that /this w'!l bp done. It is we'll known thajt so i'ur only the. husiners' premises of Germans have been dosed for the purpose of carrying on their occupations as trailers, but these trading .-.lnt.iors are still there, some of them oeciiph'd at present by British subieeis. who are paying rent lor them to Gernians, and will, unless something is done, ugain be opened after the war, and will again become German trading stations. The Germans will go on as they did before. Also, their plantations are still Qpcupiort by them, and they are allowed to sell their produce from these places. 1 do not think that this should bo allowed, I think these should be cancelled, rind every German trader sent to »ome coiony away from Tonga."