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Show I Famine in Wool, Cotton and Edible i Fats in Germany AMSTERDAM, Oct. S. (Correspond- j ence of the Associated Press,) Germany's Ger-many's famine-in cotton, wool and edi ble oils and fats is not being allcviat ed by the ingenious "just as good" , substitutes which have been provided ! ' since the war, according to Emil Zim- 1 5 merman, a well known authority on co- i '' lonial subjects, in an article 'in the : Berlin Tageliche Rundschau. "Nothing," he complains, "has cut so 1 deeply into our daily life as the 'lack of fats and the absence of raw textile m materials. One dovetails into the other, VI for no fat means no soap no soap a means chemical substitutes chemical ml substitutes ruins clothes, and clothes K we cannot replace without wool and 'Dairy produce has fallen off GG per J cent and animal fat has almost com- S I pletely vanished from the country." S Zimmerman writes, unconsciously m I perhaps, revealing the inner truth of W J Germany's precarious position when KM he declares: "We must have colonies fnl from which we can draw large quanti- , jfM ties of raw materials at once and not Ul after fifteen to twenty years of fight- II The rich territory of Central and ill West Africa appeals to the German JM economic expert as the possible site of II a Teutonic colonial empire that would fjfl overshadow even Emperor William's MH fondest dreams. He would draw 700,- Ifl 000 tons of vegetable oils and fats an- II nually from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Da- Vw homey, Togoland, tho Sommeroons, ' tho Congo and Senegambia. tV Acquisition of oil producing terri- lH tory by Germany is advocated by tho writer on tho ground that the African Mm oil regions could bo "obtained with mmm comparative ease," Zimmerman says jB: that the Congo basin can in thirty to fifty years be raised to rich produc- Iflfl tivity nnd become a second Brazil. Hj |