RIVAL GERMAN PLANS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 13

RIVAL GERMAN PLANS.

INVASION OF BRITAIN. KAISER I-'AVtiI Rs pka, £ AGITATION. I Special to "New York Herald.")

I LONDON. April 17. I Two movement-, apparently divrr-c ill j character, but In reality correlate I. re eentiy .-prang into cxutcuic in Germany. I writes a tral crro-pondi-nt who has j been ,n a business trip to Germany. I I'lic-e movements seem to have the -anie | aim in view, nauielv, to br ng about a I speed* close of the war. Roth parties iare working silently; no document* rejferring to their project, are allowed out of the hands of their tru-t-,| agent,; every bo lv i, approached por,nn , liy .>~ that no information ~\a\ |,-ak out. eitlu r through tri acherv or by an in- i caution, art. No official nam,. ,- at I tadu-d to ether of the movements, j though the Government is .-ogni/ant of! every step take, by the chief promoters ! and has sanctioned everything that has been done This secrecy enable- the authorities to keep doors ope,, f,,, csmpc i„ the even; of failure and the Government would then be able to declare that everything don,- had been without its knowledge and would not. ha I tiie facts been known, have obtained under any ciroini- \ stanpes its permission. The lir-t movement refers to t'm cold lection of funds, already said to have reached several million 'marks. t o be! presented as a special reward to the I army which has | n assembled ami is!' aow ready ~, invade Great Britain. 1 I'hi- event i- to take place when the I British Fleet ha- been suh-tun t i a |lv re- I luced by mean, of submarine ~,tacks! Hid 1055,.,, which tin- forcing of the! Dardancilr an impossibility in the! pillion of the German authorities— mist entail. The inva-ion plan is reported to have ir-en worker! out in such detail that lerman railway officials have been apminted to take charge of the railway ' tations in the particular district where . i landing is contemplated, and every one if the-,- new ,tationmasters knows ex- I icily win.re to go. The invasion scheme . B a strong favourite with a large peroutage of the German public, who have till nut a shadow of doubt about the I Empire's final victory. The contributions to the f, m ,| var y rom the grosehen—about one and a-balf ' cuts—which tin- school children bring o the schoolmaster, up to tin. more sub- , tantial amounts collected by women by rganised house to house ' canvassing. ' hildren. schoolmasters, and women, of 1,, our.-o. [day a prominent part in the! lany war propaganda which still are II cry much to the frrjnt is all grades of x-icty in Germany. 'the other movement is patronised by ie morn serious part of the German na on, that part which knows where the E loe pinches. As it costs nothing to join lis movement—an attraction never de- V lised at any time in Germany—it has et with much support, especially " nong business men, house and land a A-ncrs, artisans, these chiefly among le building trade, and, last, isut not ,- list, a certain section of the social tmoerats, the so-called "rebels." The "I omoters' endeavour is conecntrated >on obtaining signatures to a petition hich it is intended to present to the aiser, having for its object the Btop-JBi ng of the war it the earliest possible '

moment, as the financial losses suffered have been almost ruinous. Admiration „l the glorious victories achieved by t,,e ~r:ny is expressed in no measured phrasing, and while the signsj tone- have „„, the -lightest doubt ol Germany s ability to ~,.,,.,1, the country's

encnes. til, .V nevertheless venture "to Migcct to the Kaiser's advisers that I peace nil rea-.011.11.1e tens would be cx- , ceedui.'ly uelirime to them. I In well.inform. I circle, i, j„ 9ai j that I the Kai,er i, behind this stop the-war • movement; indeed, that hr- has even (expressed guarded approval ,-f the i scheme. In any rase, a will be interest--Img to watch developments , n cornicei Hon with tins matter. WOMEN'S APPEAL FOR PEACE. •i.noo.onn killed and wocnded. I The foilowung appeared ,„ f„- rmonth, ago. under the title ~f "The World's Heart l'.lood." in a fortnightly periodical known a, ~>,,. ■•Eraiicubevvegang. 'or "Women', Movement."; -The number of our dead which that Thug the war has already caused to fall in the Eu,t and in the West already exceeds " ""'■'"""■ while the wounded number three millions. This horror must cease To Social Deinncr.-i.-y fall- the duty of assembling the ma„es preparatory to an active movement in favour of peace. D I- said that to start a pea,-,, propa-g-.au.hi is a -,g„ ~f weakness, Li Ut Mlc |, stupid arguments are untenable in the presence.of the stern reality. The fact tilt Germany has carried the war into ' the enemy s territory is the strongest ' reason why a pronouncement ~i favour ' ■ f pei'-r- houl,l emanate from Germany. : l\" feel a-ured that our appeal will not ' remain unanswered. As we were unable to pJcv, at the war. we urge that by all ' aos.dVr mean- w- agitate f„ r ~c a(v. I May it reecho throughout Germany, and I ' n loss her frontiers, into the world, our '' iejrt-wrung cry for Peace!" '