[Sidenote:  Directions of German aims.]

“The history of our colonies in this world war has shown what was hitherto wanting in the German colonial empire.  It has shown that it was not a proper ‘empire’ at all, but merely a number of possessions without geographical and political connection, and without established communications....  How greatly would the power of resistance of our colonies have been increased if they had not been isolated!...  These experiences show what direction our aims must take.  We shall achieve the fulfillment of our desires if we remain conscious that the colonial-political aim is not something which stands alone by itself, but must be regarded in organic connection with all other aims which we are determined to attain by the world war.”

Prof.  Delbrueck, in a recent number of the “Preussische Jahrbuecher,” thus sketches the new African Empire: 

[Sidenote:  Plan for a new African Empire.]

“If our victory is great enough, we can hope to unite under our hand the whole of Central Africa with our old colony South-west Africa; Senegambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Dahomey, well-populated Nigeria with the port of Lagos, Kamerun, the rich islands of San Thome and Principe with their splendid ports, the Katanga ore district, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique, and Delagoa Bay, Madagascar, German East Africa, Zanzibar, and Uganda; and in addition the great port of Ponta Delgado in the Azores—­one of the most important and most frequented coaling stations—­and Horta, one of the most important centers of the transatlantic cable system.  At present the Azores belong to Portugal, which is at war with Germany.  Portugal also owns the Cape Verde Islands, with the port of Porto Grande, one of the most frequented coaling stations in the Eastern Atlantic.

[Sidenote:  The riches of the African territories.]

“All these territories together have over 100,000,000 inhabitants.  United in a single ownership, and with their various characteristics supplementing one another, they offer simply immeasurable prospects.  They are rich in natural treasures, rich in possibilities of settlement and trade, and rich in men who can work and also be used in war.  To demand them is not unjust, and does not offend against the principle of equilibrium, since Germany would thus only be obtaining a colonial empire such as England and Russia, France and America, have long possessed.”

Franz Kolbe, in the “Deutsche Politik,” a year ago thus described the future role for raiders in the South Atlantic: 

[Sidenote:  Importance of German-West African Coast in combating Great Britain.]