Show rOlL A to the tor calls call attention to the fact that the tho present South African conflict In III all probability wilt wIll have bao tt ef feels in EUrope Jt It mB may Cause a 0 change chane In the J there 8 as OR that In Africa It is II Holland especially that is II concerned at thIs time Gennan the ftc writer In the S thinks has hilI developed n a noisy sympathy th thy for tor the merel merely to gain tho ho of the Dutch people There is II no other hy the Germans should feel teet antagonism to the 1110 hope tu to gain by the display ot of friendship rl a foothold In holland In the nine athe voy as they thoy have to 10 e themselves In t the o orient by a demonstration ot of friend It this It is 11 cheaper than the ac ot of the same end by I I I means mans ot n n a nd a 8 war Var 8 as In the cut case ot of Denmark and amt France holland ill III particUlarly de desirable as 11 asan nn an addition to th the great The valuable waterwayS of the empire flow through that country countr It has hul fine harbors and vast with 1 enor moils Incus though but imperfectly d developed resource The tho latter would be 0 of at gren greatest Blue to Germany to the tho herman view tile tho excess s of edo men must bl be made room for tor In colonies and therefore It IL Is Ired ered that the tho empire by means melan ot of It a common customs unIon be drown dran Into t connection with lIh the ot of the Dutch especIally In the Enat Germany now hopes that the sympathy Ih thy fur Cor the floors Joers may create a moral rupture between holland anti and antI and that tills eventually load lead tl to the tho absorption of the d kingdom b by bythe th the German empire That Thill Is the view taken by the writer In the Spectator Holland isolated would eort certainly be on fitly easy match to lie tho Germane flut Dut could Great afford to consent to the annihilation ot of Dutch independence as 08 asa n a retaliation for the tho natural sympathy of that Illat people toward their own kith am kin Thu author quoted says Tho Dutch only have hwe them themselves elve elveto to thank when hen theIr liberties and cal col onies Vanish down the G ma maWe maw We Se shall not help them This Thle cannot bo be the J popular In Great Still It Is possible that the smaller st states tes or of Europe will before I the end of oC another century be absorbed by tho th larger neighbors TIle expansion policy ot of the regime seems to have hlo leavened the Euro European ean govern men meats Is IsIt It Is conceivable that In time there will 11 bo be ri II II a TeutonIc an n a 11 Greek n a Latin nation dominating the old world orld of the numerous small mall states now hOW arbitrarily dIvIded AS the tho ot of war nr have willed It without regard to union ot of origin history sentiments or language Seine lIuch arrangement seems n ce cesari sari sarr before universal pence peace can prevail holland would naturally belong to Oer Ger Germany many and to France Austria would practically be wIped out all as would European Turkey The Scandinavian countries would so go perhaps partly to Great Grent Britain and partly to Germany Some Somo division of oC European spheres ot of Influence Is by no means inconceivable |