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would not be for many years, for the simple reason that in 

 a generation or two there would not be a native left to 

 cultivate the soil and prepare the crops for their task- 

 masters. Germany, judging from what she has done in the 

 past, would have soon exterminated the coloured labour 

 had the colonies remained with her, and since no Germans 

 want to go there (as they prefer our own colonies, with 

 their just, humane laws, which enable them to fatten on and 

 to fleece us as merchants, instead of tilling their own soil 

 as settlers), the end of their colonies as important produc- 

 ing centres would not have long delayed, even without the 

 War. 



" Thirty years after the birth of Germany's great dream 

 of colonial expansion," writes Mr. Harris on p. 16 of his 

 important book, which has appeared in the very " nick of 

 time," " the creators find that their work in its main 

 objective has been utterly futile, because her sons and 

 daughters, having discovered that the areas prepared for 

 them are uncolonizable, bend their footsteps elsewhere, 

 mainly to the territories under the flags of Great Britain 

 and the Americas. The colonies of their own country had 

 no attraction for them. . . . From 1880 to 1910 the 

 population of Germany had increased from 45,000,000 to 

 65,000,000, and during this period there were over 2,000,000 

 emigrants from Germany. Whither ? To those colonies 

 upon which German statecraft, the Colonial Societies, and 

 every allied agency of government had lavished such care 

 in preparing them as homes for these emigrants ? Nothing 

 of the kind . . . less than 1,000 male emigrants settled 

 in Germany's Colonial Empire each year. 



For political reasons, therefore — that is, to prevent Ger- 

 many from having bases throughout the world, and the 

 means to suck in money with which to equip her armies 

 to fight her civilized neighbours, as well as for humani- 

 tarian reasons— our chief enemy must be deprived of all 

 her extra-European possessions. This is especially im- 

 portant during times like the present, when civilized nations 

 are striving so vigorously to increase the coloured labour 

 supplies throughout the Tropics, and not exterminate them 

 year by year as the Germans have been doing so systemati- 

 cally, as shown by Mr. Harris's book on p. 27, where he 

 reports: "... allegations had frequently been made 

 of atrocities inflicted upon the natives, including the bar- 

 barous treatment accorded to natives, of women and 

 children captured during the Herero War, thousands of 

 whom, it v/as said, were either murdered, driven into the 



