GERMANY'S TURN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 88, 15 May 1917, Page 7

GERMANY'S TURN.

"OUST THE HOHENZOLLEiiNS!" A pamphlet issued by tho "Association of Male Citizens of Southern Germany" entitled "The Only Way Out," is published in Munich, 'and 'is from Hie pen of a presumably pseudonymous "Heinrieh Sieger." His thesis is that Germany's victories resemble those of Xing l'yrrhus, only more so, each victory being, in fact, more costly than a defeat. He writes: "Germany cries, 'Wo will light till tlie last man, and when no more men are left we will enrol women and old men,' but the people themselves are convinced that no manoeuvre of this pert can avert ultimate defeat, which at this moment is mathematically certain," The pamphleteer regards Germany's present situation as identical with that of the French Empire's a century ago. When the crucial moment conies will William 11., lie asks, stand prepared to sacrifice himself for the German people as Napoleon did? Ho adds: "JSvcn as Franco avoided terible peace conditions by deposing Napoleon, so Germany, faced by the vision of final catastrophe, will one day be driven to decide on deposing the King of Prussia in favor of a Bavarian ruler. Tin: house of \\ ittelsb.ic'i has fulfilled all its duties to tho Empire, its escutcheon is unstained, and in this war it has won its laurels again and again. Not only would the German Empire under a Wittelsbach dynasty oiler the necessary security for a European peace, but also the possibility of realising a still greater Germany." The writer foresees that England, France and 'Russia will never consent to negotiate peace with the present Kaiser or the German Crown Prince, whereas "with the disappearance- of the liohenzoilerns it will become possible for Germany to promote and cement cordial relations with England, as has happened in England's relations wiili France." The Zurich 'Vnlksreeht' says that the document here summarised voices a state of opinion very widely diffused in Bavaria.