ENGLAND'S PERIL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 31 December 1912, Page 5

ENGLAND'S PERIL

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SENSATIONAL AJRTICLE. CONGENTRATION OF THE EMPIRE URGED. 10 (Received December 30, 8 a.m.) e f LONDON, December 29. ■' Mr Frederic Harrison, in a remark i s able article in aJi English review, pre diets that tQie whole international sys ! tem will be recast in 1913. Peril lies in the German desire fo e expansion. Ninety per cent of th Germans'' desire is for peace if Ger 0 roan interests are not affected. l j The Kaiser, he says; is honestly do C ing his ibest to remove his neighbours apprehensions until some crisis com pels him to speak. Meanwhile th. predominant 10 per cent bred for wa is pushing its countrymen to a cours< from whirih war is almost an inevit able consequence. I Mr Harrison contends that Turkey'; collapse and the Balkan kingdpms t, aggrandisement was a fatal set-'baci _ to Pan-German ideals. •Nothing outside Europe is now opet to Germany; but Europe is cipen, anc it is- inevitable that Germany wil seek expansion there. ; England's peril must be met by • • predominant fleet. An immense anc continuous naval increase is a mattei of life and death to us. Mr Harrison advocates a £150.000,000 war loan, of iwhich amount £IOO, 000,000 should be forthwith spent or r the Navy and £50,000,000 on the Army. - It is essential, to .concentrate out • Empire, to. withdraw from the Medit- • erranean, including Gibraltar, and certainly give up Egypt and the Af- ' r:can Empire to the southward. . i ''