A BORDER CLASH
(Received 10.50 a.m.) XEW YORK, May 21. An encounter between Americans and Mexicans is reported from the border. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) WORLD DOMINION. PEACE MOVES OF THE WIXY HTTN.
WASHINGTON, May 21. The return of Mr. ¥. C. Penneld, American Ambassador to Austria, and other sources of information disclose an ambitious German scheme to control half of Kurope. The Germans planned the establishment of a great military and economic dominion extending from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, and embracing Bulgaria and Turkey, and controlling the Dardanelles, the Baltic, and the .ligean, with Austria subservientThis would be t K e foundation of Germany's world empire. The revelation is regarded as the most conclusive proof that Germany's past and projected peace manoeuvres are merely attempts to obtain a truce to enable the consolidation of the territory won in South-eastern Europe.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 121, 22 May 1917, Page 5
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