Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-22
GERMANY HAS FILLED
ALL SOUTH AMERICA
WITH VAST COLONIES
State Department Has lnfor-
nation That FoothoIdS Quiet
Iy Established Would Grave
Iy ImperiI Monroe Doctrine

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-"Pan-Amer-
lea" is in peril!
Information in possession Of the SEN
ates foreign relations committee indi-
Gates a great German influence in Latin
America-infuence amounting to the
establishment of footholds in several
American republics that would sraVely
imperil the Monroe doctrine.
Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia,
Nicaragua and the Danish island OF st.
Thomas, now under Germanglea are
the localities in which Teutonic power
is unmasked-and even Argentina,
strongest of the South American repub-
lies. has an army made up on German
models and containing many German
military instructors.
LITTLE GERMANY"
Southern Brazil has a Little Ger
many'-the states of Parana, Santa
Catharina and Rio. Grande do Sul-con-
tanning 10000 Germans.
Villages in these states, which are the
southernmost of Brazil, resemble little
pieces of Germany; German is the lam
guage used; the customs are German.
In 1926 the immigration of Germans
to Brazil started; once the republic, in
alarm, imported large numbers of Rus
sian Poles and Italians, Of whom 100000
came in 1889 and 1890. But the govern
ment was unable to finance these whole
sale immigrations, and the German pre-
ponderance grew.
Adjoining Little Germany on the
west is the republic of Paraguay, in
which German influence now leads; for
Germany organized and Differed the
Paraguayan army. Nt.
GERMANIZED ARMY.
Argentina also has a Germanized
army, but the German population here
is not proportionately large. Paraguay
however, is a perpetual threat on Ar
gentinas northeast border, with her
tiny but efficient army to prevent any
anti-German action. Argentina might
care to take. /.
Chile across the Andesc form Argen-
tina, cotnains several. German colonies.
one of which. Valdivia, is as German a
city as Berlin. 1t has 10000 people:
the province IN which Valdivia is situat-
cd also has an important Teutonic ele-
ment. Germans have tried to control the
Chilean army.
Germans established colony on the
west coast of South America, not far
but they were driven off by the Span
jards. The Germans. now in Chile are
immigrants of recent years.
COLONY IN 1923. g..
In 1928 the Welsers, wealthy Ger
man merchants, who had their head
quarters at Augsburg, sent a fleet to
the west coast of South America, under
command of one Dalfnger of Ulm. Dali
finger founded this town.
Later, nearing Of the golden shrines
on the lncas, in Peru, ne led an eX-
petition into that country, Cruelty prac.
ticed against the Indians led to his death
by a poisoned arrow. Most of his
followers were slain by Indians, but the
pWelsers retained control of Chile I'M
til the coloHists were driven out by the
Spanish. a. .-....... ....
Valdivia, the present foothold of Ger
many in Chile, lies, 450 miles south of
Valparaiso. -.
ST. THOMAS LEASED. . g..
The island of st. Thomas, belonging
to Denmark, and lying just east of the
American possession of Porto Rico, is
under lease to Germany which has
established an important base there, In
a position Of strategic value because of
its nearness to the Panama canal The
United States once tried to buy St
Thomas from Denmark, but the deal fell
through because of German objection.
Germany also has important holdings
in Colombia and in. Nicaragua Private
companies have bought up lands the be-
lief in Washington being that it is in
tended at some date to construct III
one country or the other. a German rival
of the Panama canal -'
1t will &c remembered, also, that Ger
MANY once tried to control the customs
department of the Haitien republic, and
20 establish a base at Mole st. Nicholas
This point dominates the Windward pas
sage. between Cuba and Haiti, through
which most traffic from the United
States passes to the. Panama canal