The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-12-30
.FAvORS POLICY
Of EXPANSION
DR.. Vosberg Says Ger
many Needs Colonial
Territory.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The State
Department has received from United
States Consular Agent Harris at Elben-
stock an interesting report on the sub
ject of German colonial enterprises. Con-
sui Harris quotes from a speech deliv-
cred by Dr. Vosberg-Rekow, Director Of
the German Bureau for the Preparation
of Commercial Treaties, before the mer-
chants of Leipzig as follows:
1t is evident that we never give up
our present policy relative to foreign affairs
or the strenut US efforts being made to become
o great sea power. We must engage in colon
ial politics on a large scale. We must strive
to expand our spheres of interest and to instllI
in our people the consciousness of the neees-
sity of aggressive policy. 1t is only by
the annexation of territory beyond the States,
the DEVELOPMENT of colonies and the organ
ization of immigration to the same that We
may ever hope to be in position to supply
those natural products which we are not able
to produce within the borders of the home
country.
Harris points out that while the terri
tory comprised in all of the German col
onies abroad amounts to 2,50l,OOO square
miles, with white population OF -6OOS
(only little more than half being Ger
mani, not a single one of these colonies
is self-supporting. The total income OF
the like amounts to $S,226,470, while the
deficit, it is stated, reached $6,977, 922
The ideal relations between a colony
and a mother country, says Harris, are
those which permit the colony to produce
the raw material which the mother coun-
try receives and pays back In a manu-
featured state, but, in accordance with
the irresistible law Of economics, a col
ony with great material resources will
emancipate itself gradually from the
mother country. ut is doubtful, how
ever" continues Harris, whether this
will shortly be true of any of the present
colonies OF Germany
In almost every part of the world, it is
stated, where Germany's acquisitions are
e-{f fo6 &c in hn iT71T11 h
borhood a colony Of Great Britain or
come other country which is better able
to produce colonial NAL products 9t Great
through the medium of her colonies has
a monopoly of almost half the commerce
of the German dependencies.
The commercial development Of German
Southwest Africa, Harris states, will one
day probably be retarded by the competi-
tion and aggressiveness of Cape Colony
Tables are submitted showing that Ger
many's share in the exports of her own
colonies is only 30 per cent, while of all
the products required by her dependencies
the mother country supplies only about
60 per cent.
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passengers are buried under the debris
caused by the slide, but no names can be
ascertained of any passengers known to
be missing. The train to which the mis-
hap occurred was known as No. Z. 1t
left Lyncnsurg behind schedule time, and
consisted of an engine, tender. baggage
car and one passenger car which was
practically well filed with travellers.
1t is stated that the train had run into
a landslide without damage and that the
trainmen and some of the passengers had
succeeded in pushing the passenger car
back from under the cliff. They were
trying to do the same thing for the bag
gage car when a second heavy slide came
down The car was overturned and
Thompson, Fisher and Shannon were
crushed. Conductor Whitaker was
Knocked into the river and drowned. His
body has not been recovered. A shout of
warning as the second slide came en-
abIed most of those who were in danger
to escape without injury. All the killed
were residents of Richmond.