GERMAN EXPANSION.
MO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I had the honour of meeting a German official recently, and in conversation, quite "off duty," he told me that in his opinion Germany could expand with least inconvenience to other nations in Turkey-in-Asia. Germany must expand; and I submit that German colonization of these undeveloped lands would be followed by (1) large increase of British trade; (2) remunerative investments for British capital; and (3) better relations with Germany. The same benefits in a lesser degree would follow a German occupation of Turkey-in-Europe. It may be urged that Egyptian and Indian unrest would be increased, but I believe the administration of Turkey-in-Asia by a powerful Christian and military State would have exactly the opposite effect. German fortifications on the shores of the Dardanelles is a question that concerns Russia more than Great Britain, and if the old kind feeling between English and Germans can be regained by our friendly neutrality to such a German enterprise it is in my opinion worth the sacrifice.—I am, Sir, &e., F. L. COPLESTONE,
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