The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
BERLIN PLANNED BIG BLACK ARMY
 TO WIN AFRICA

London. Jan. 31-Lieut.-Gen. J. c. Shuts, featuring before the Royal Geographical Society on East Africa Monday night, contrasted the British and German colonial viewpoints. Germany was not looking for homes for settlers and had no population, particularly farmers, for emigration.
 Germany's colonial aims, the gen. eral said, were dominated by far. reaching conception of world poh- tics. Her real aims were military and in getting strategic positions to eXer- else world power.
 Germany's ambition, he added, was for a great East and Central African empire, embracing the colonies now owned by the British, Belgian. French and Portuguese, lying south of Lake Chad and north of the 1am- besi river.
 This territory, Gen. Shuts said, was, first, to supply raw materials for the German empire, but was mainly for raising a great African army to carry out her scheme of world conquest. Suppose that German East Africa remains a part of the British empire after the war" said Gen. Shuts. Cries of "It will and must interrupted him, after which he continued: "Germany's colonizing methods ! really mean a policy of diametrically | opposed to that of the British em- pire which has found it's symbol in the Union of South Africa. l do not want to speak about the disposal Of German East Africa after the war, but the law of self-preservation must apply to that country, where Prusslan militarism must never be allowed to take hold.
 ."The East African campaign may be found to be a most important fac. tor in developing the future and per | manent peace of the world"
 Germany, Gen. Shuts said, propos- ed to have harbors on the Atlantic and Indian coasts of Africa for naval and submarine bases, from which both ocean routes could be dominated and Anglo-American sea power brought to naught.
 2 Native armies would be useful in the next great war, to which Ger many already was giving attention, asserted the general, who added: ''The untrained 1evies of the Union of South Africa will go down before these German trained hordes of Afri- cans, who will also be able to deal with northern Africa and Egypt with 1 out any help from white troops from Germany.
 ''They will also mean a great army planted on the flank of Asia and whose force could be felt throughout the middle East as far as Persia, per haps farther.
 "Great Britain's objects in Africa are inherently pacific and defensive Looking to the future from the broad est viewpoint and looking further upon Africa as a halfway house on the road to India and Australia, the British empire asks only internal peace and the security of it's eXterna. communications.
 ''It cannot allow a return to condi- lions which mean the militarizatior
 of the natives and their employment !; for a scheme of world power. It can not allow naval and submarine base: , to be organized on both coasts o1
 Africa to the enlargement of the sea communication of the empire anc ? the peace of the world. It must in sist upon through land communica , ton from one end of Africa to thu other.
 'As long as there is no real change
 of heart in Germany, no irrevocablt
 break with militarism, the law of self
 preservation must be considered par
 amount
 ''No fresh extension of Prussia1
 militarism to other continents ant
 seas should be tolerated and the con
 uuered German colonies can only b.
 regarded as guarantees for the futur' neace of the world"