THE GERMAN SPECTRE.
Mr W: T. Stead,, itfdrie-bf Ms latept ai-ticles, expresses the belief that, it is. no use trying to exorcise the German spectre*; it Avili not be put down. "The publication of the _ German census figures," Mr Stead goes on to gay "has <nven a mew head to the spectre. The great problem that ■troubles the Old "World to-day is the rise of Germany to a position of domination on the OontineAVgreater than that enjoyed . by any other Power since NajJoleon. The British Empire alone remains as an independent unit, whose counsels are dominated by the .shadows of German swords. But England, def oite the entente with France'and Russia, h powerless from a military point of view. Her domination is Incoming more and more limited to the sovereignty of the seas, but that sovereignty has been diligently undermined for the past ten years', and the menacing shadow that Stretches across the narrow sea tills the minds of Britons with, undisguised uneasiness. : r
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10535, 23 January 1912, Page 4
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164THE GERMAN SPECTRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10535, 23 January 1912, Page 4
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