The German Colonial Empire Its Beginning And Ending
The German Colonial Empire Its Beginning And Ending
Paolo Giordani
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Admitting Germany to be excluded from Turkey, as from all her African or Oceanic colonies, by the final victory of the allies, among the conquerors who may benefit by the direct or indirect territorial parti- tion of the Ottoman Empire old and new rivalries will be centred more violently and perhaps more bitterly on the Bagdad railway. It will certainly be no easy matter permanently to reconcile so many and deep-rooted dissensions of formidable interests that now lie in ambush. Meanwhile in thi...s theatre is developing, unheeded by the majority, the greatest event of the colonial war; the British invasion of Mesopotamia. In the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond, in England's ad- vanced posts, Port Said and Aden, Germany with sure and powerful commercial penetration, with the political and military subjugation of Turkey, success- fully freed herself from the slavery of Suez, and with direct economic and strategic weapons, attacked British 102 THE GERMAN COLONIAL EMPIRE expansion at the very heart; the English route to India was more than compromised.
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