The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14
GERMANY CANNOT
SPARE HER COLONIES
Possession Needed for Security
Of Working Glasses, Off
cial Asserts.
OIL Products 4 FEATURE
OIL PRODUCTS A FEATURE
SPECIAL coyvespondeace 10 THs sus.

I<'NDpN, SprlI o-1errldH NSWs-
papers have recently contained many
articles in which IL Is declared that the
terms of peace must include the restora-
ton of all the German colonial posses
sions, In an article in the Tag DIR.
Stockman OF kiel. a Government official,
proves the yalue OF the German colonies
in relation to German industry. He
SAYS
The enormous use which we make OF
the oil products Of our colonies il
scarcely realized. We require them not
only for the manufacture OF soap. can
dies and foods made Of fats but also for
feeding our cattle In al ever increasing
degree. In 1919 We imported 3c0 million
marks worth OF copra. ~cocoanuts. cotton.
ground nuts and soya beans. to the culti-
walton OF which our colonies in Southwest
Africa. East Africa. tn. Cameroons and
Togoland have devoted more and more
capital. and We imported at the same
time IS million marks worth OF colonial
oils and fats. or a total OF $50 million
marks.
Great Cspra shipnents.
Sea companies. Germany imported in
vas worth - million marks, OF which
lS. 900 tons In that year and $4,000 tons
In 1912 came from our South sea COL
onies, while our total imports OF copra
in 1918 came 10 2t2,000 tons. The re-
port declares that. according TO our
plans for colonizing the islands with
settlers and natives. and in view OF the
acreage that could still he devoted TO
cocoanuts. Ne could in reasonable time
have obtained all the copra that We
needed from our possessions in the
Pacific. To this must be added the de-
velopment OF the cocoanut industry In
East Africa and Togoland. which would
certainly have rendered us independent
OF any imports OF copra from foreign
colonies.
Cotton took the hrst place In value
and quantity OF the raw products that
We obtained from abroad. In 1918 We
imported nearly $50 million marks
worth OF cotton. Most Of this cat me- from
North America. and the twelfth part
OF our supply ane from Egypt. But
first from our Fast African colonies
and ToEo!and. the imports from this
source would have rapidly Increased
owing to improvement n the transport
by water and other communications 10
which our colonial industrial committee
was devoting great attention. There
are. in any case, in the Cameroors large
areas suited 10 the production Of cotton.
I'm the wear 1912 WI imported about
900 900 tons OF raw copper OF the value
Of 3l3, 0O0. 900 marks. OF which about
$1,000 ton came from the United
States. while Southwest Africa exported
in that year $4,000 tons Of the value OF
$500, 900 marks. OF the 3.sO9 tons OF
hemp which Germany imported in 1919
Of the value OF 1000, 900 marks. more
than t%wo-thirds Of the total came from
Gervnan East Africa,
Proat IN Raw Material.
THE fsures and facts which I have
given, which prove that Germany. accord
ing to our trade statistics. already paws
more thar three milliards OF marks
every year fW' its most important imports
In raw materials from oversee. show how
necessary II Ia that We should possess
our own colonies from which. at any
rate. We could draw a part OF this ma
terial. At present more than nlne-,enths
OF that three mllliards OF marks goes 10
foreign countries. But the more we site
coed in drawing our raw material from
German colonies the greater will he the
profit which will accrue 10 the German
Empire.
1T Is not only the possession OF orr
own colonies which is important. but the
freedom which it secureSofor us from the
,arih policy OF other countries which ma
Interfere with the import OF our necss-
sary raw material and compel us to buy
II at an excessive price. The possession
Of colonies In therefore clearly in the in
terest and for the security OF our work
ing classes. and most important for the
Improvement OF their standard OF living
Even a Social Democrta has pointed
1ttt Nhnt Et,rnnn ~ Vtnt h.A ,,tthA,,
| colonies. What In necessary for Europe
Is necessary for Germany. and although
II Is forbidden to us to discuss ANY pnr,
Of u war policy, It Ia just as well tina,
We should be clear on the point tina,
Germany must have an even greater
colonial empire"
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