The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo. FRIDAY AUGUST,20.1915 GERMANY'S DESIGNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 198, 20 August 1915, Page 4

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Echo.

FRIDAY AUGUST,2O.I9IS GERMANY'S DESIGNS.

For t)if cnunr that I/re/.-? a.<s<.<;lanc«, | for th" irroug that n'erfs resistance. For thr future in the distance, I And the oooci that ice run do.

Dur n_ the early stag.-* of the v., the loii.nilisti,- ani diploraatii mouth .piece, of llermanv made a practice c, '.ivertm;. that the •_ eonntrr had bee, I deliberately attacked by a oombinatior of und.etiip e.nem.r.. and that it was therefore, rightins pureli m ):• o«n de ifi'f At tnat time it .ii- .-onv.picnl for i-c-mans and pro German- to i_nor< 'he significant la -t that Italy hid re fused to admit h.c r obligation to Ger rrtanv ,n terms nf ihe Triple Al'iance solely on the ground that the j. a - ha 1 heen organised and p.eeip.tated by Ger many bereelf. and. therefore. *oi_d not :>c termed defer.-., vr Put tor the m-.ment the att.tude taken up hi the Germans was eiteh tha - it debarred them altogether from putting; for-a-d any 'laim to extend their (.orders or en'argc their territories, even if th.-v .-ho ild p-o'.e vi.-:oriou.s More recently, ho-vver ihe G«rmin people seem to ha-."- eg-j piste-j t'-'c_-.-.ei-. c. t-> - 'l r —laivt.i n--e- . and a.- at'tv twelve montl'.r ol ■> a - the ,i.\\ linl themsehes able to hold off trier »ne-n:es on c th»r fror.f.er the ...ope nf tn-r ambition*- hi- bcr_ er- maierial'.v enlarge 1 Tneie is no dooht that the Mitesm.er. originally respon*iM* i >r this ■ar ha! •■<■-. uefin i« purpose* n - c v ,>n thr;. maie it inevitable, hut .t .' only n-■ v that the i.ermin r.at-n *<- a b.it es o( sell' affcrandiscn-enl ma- it opens up and tn' rppoGun.t- that ',crmaD,_. hi< seurfd to mr:..-h her." f II t ie expert-- oi h»r neighbour. .:' • r.ly ■ h» .11, » n TV <-*,- for Germany's amort --n' - i-> "it early and forcibly by ..ne of I v. iron '.» clciv rea i oi German n'n -: papers •he Bavarian ' Neue.tc Naehrich'en." a i.v weeks apo In .«n'ri-t » 'h our ep.rniir.- " says t b i - ip-'uentu' >"Ut ■ i.rrmin ~rj»n. who from the very be ?i-,nin_ • ■' hr -var have been ha*..' m .1- :d.n_ op 'he skn of t" twit iefore (hei have .-aught it. «hi ha-.r a>riiv put forward ar. i op»„v .|i,fii...r,l the r fanta.Mr pans fT dividing i? '.rrmanv vcrc in Gertnanv ar hive held our-c,ve» ha.-k .r, a -.>' rrvtraint from an-, dc-.-ussion of th« ,». ue of the war. so long as the out, o n .f ■-;' '.:* >ea'\ :i_h'ini thai «' :'< vr to ~ecp :p i_ains' an 'n»rm<iu> Mir-enon'T of i<-r-e r.-.uld not -vclcarl-r-r.'eirel a"'l so ;on_ at- ■ ' it' not fill- -ure thif - - -""ild i - the -'.-••nr'h to Sold out to tnf "T- "i .hough in'v>-dl ■< ' had no dft-vt.' fiit'iill. the fact* »#r» not -•:.'-. that •• • yi|.| r'-kon '-0r..-. ir-C ■•> •'•'' »n4 pf J .--)f|v c-, i = ■■.■!■ a r "i in -on .iti.-.ral fulslrr>»nt of our expectation* icorJ .n_ 'o oor fishes" But a. matters now Fund the >'..-. ri'hten" thinks that »_.» li.EM peop c ha-. < <•■ _r~ • _->l»« fo r e : ..re P -i -_ th'.r .-on-ept,-.-.. r< whit is d :<• to 'hem iv rc'urn tor the tre mendf-is efforts nd sir r ._-es c n t„,;cd upon them :-v- the war ' Ir. th* East our tr..or- are poshing forviatl irrc- : si-:iblv . the military strength of R_-«ia ' is unmistakably brrakinc up in the! W'ttst one attempt after anotr-r of our i r-iifmi's to break through .o_i«f> 'o ! vrred*. and our poaition- throughout j enemy territory are unshaken, and. :n i deed. »afer than before th • a"i'ance of our iaith>ss former allie. ir the ,-outh we ran oppose vith complete tran-. rnditv. while our *T'irkish friends mnl.nue t-v aniniiilr te m I ie Dardanelles, one enemy w»r«-.p after another. There ,s ei.-r jround 'therefore, espenally in view of the economic and financial difli .-ul'ies o- our foes, for our rvemj eiifri.lentlv sev-ure to permit ourselves now a jrl.iQc-r into the future." And it therefore pro.-eeds. to indicate the -penal, direction in fhieh Germany .-an reasonabli expect to indemnify herself for al'. i that _he has cn.]ur»d after the vvar i_ j ovfr. We need not spend time in diseussine the pr n| iodsv for this revival o: optimiMii ; in Germany, or in advancing the evidence that we might ea.lv put forward ,n favour of the view that the Allies' have far better reason than our mr ! mirvs to look to the future with fonfi-1 dence. Our present obie.-t is to drawl attention to one special purpose which j the "Naehrichten" particularly empha-j sisei —the intention of Germany to ob-1 tain a new outlet into the North r-ea i hv securing for hers-elf the mouth of i the Tthine. Now. it i_- hardly n.cessarv j to remind our readers that the outlet j of the Rhine jr- in Du'.h territory, and. that to seize the whole course of the; Rhine down to its mouth would mean ] the annexation of part or all of Hoi- i land. It ivs true that the -'Vaehriehten" j assures us that Holland -'will in no wav iie prejudiced." but beside this, enigmatic hint we may place the empha ti- as.ertion that "the outlet of ihe i.-rman Rhine into thr German c-ean.' is. ,i result of 'his Mar. will he a purely | Orman affair." Tin- statement ol the', ,-ase is strictly in \eepin_ with the Imperial ("haneellor's re.-en: promise to the Reiehftag that ('.ermany ' mild viose the "»r only with 'every possih'.e, real _uarautee and security"—a phrase'i which was interpreted by a National Liberal as involving "an "x-j _ tension of our frontier 1 on the .roiind , ot military nn-evssity." W> have al I re.i iv disc'issed at some With tie possibility that Holland may he lorced to take part in taie .var to defend her | (

I . ..-fi; .ig-inn German eithei j present or prospe.-tiv c. Rut we car ' imagine nothin_ hrtter i-alnilatecj tr the Dutch m makin, up then minds t 0 antieipaie , ir i attack iron: Germany than tin* .*i"ir and in-:-,vr notiScafion that if Germany is vie torious the vrho> o« the Rhine trorr sour, r fo mouth ra'usf pas- mto i,»rr_a: Hand.-. _ Rui n,.e attention to thr "design, nf th- German rnilita.-.st parry .il r o"il _:c ~ mistake ro ignore the », -.LSfenee of influences that, qmtp apart ! from the restrainin? force of ,s r All-es , may serve •., eoinferact t.---- .i2«res | sive ten.en l_v Hi,,- ,-_;-, ie me-s.i_.-_ iod.iv refe r -o =i.-.-,i,_t movement -up 1 1 ported hv m-lnr ol the most. .li.-tm n.thou.h. ,-, Grnnanv. aeaui?-. ihe pro n, posed annev.tion ..t ..,-,, t r, r * l?a tern • , iori.-s j, ,„(. German armies may ""J orr-nr., or c or ,-, :er. Tie pr;n pie „ n t| which this, prote-t ,s -.._-.■.! -that roll ri houndane. should coin-:!.- with ■ national l.mit.-. and that an alien ■J element w_i, ~ ,in never : .,, a_s__iila_ed .j bj eon.-jue-r i.. .. po-.tive ireakn_— ID iian.v politial -.-.-ieit-_ust commend itself to ill rat onal rr.rn. Indeed, it ia tbe 'jonl". principle n n vhsh the affairs of " | Europe .-an he . .fe.). settled after the »ar .. ,-,v.. r , n ; f iJermanT had always 1 bis.c 1 her poliry upon it. ne cm veil that, tins terrible ro„fl;-t ' eonM have hoer, avert.-l indenniteiy But 'it '.ermany came out of rh_» -war uneon "IU-'ei I i= quite ce.-r.j'n that th. milt. tar.-t par'v *o ild re.c.-i tie _-_i.r and mere s-.t-.x.nl <r . e.i s . ,-h ar o nn _ 1 rre.;i-..i to He- [Vm ■'''- 3ni r> ffien is. I ■: a- Mol;„e ani h.. .-ol .leagu... a:--- the r :a_ •-. P.-u. ia.i v a-. derte J . B-bniar, < «ni stored up n-aiu ', Übie evils for the •■;; ,;e ■ : _ r s. X , U _ ' 'Alsace Lorra.n' so ie ran :«■ sure i.-c '■iripjel Europe nt''. th.s li v> ■ -_.i : .n-u-t tri" the i'.<n.:_ rr. j-' r.ta a T:r\z<, ix ani Polan! on si. • t I_. miiM-. Bit. nap-..; _.i the..- ,-.._ - int. r,s re-.- .■• ro ,r. 1 one flOtin _-»net -tli» out. . line ■: i"..- vv ir. -.n: ie- _~- ,s ri:itp enmi.h to ron/inn (i.e.: |.let. —i:.:nr" n tha- no matter "vi: tn--I >,s: ••' :..-" sa I le *i: ._ i-: •-:: i lin on' ■. r.pe .. a t l