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Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 7

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ENEMY ATMS ADMITTED. The 1 llhemisch-Westfacliseho Zcituug,’ the ovgiui of the great industrial magnates, in an article on the principles of a German peace, harps on the phrase “Our enemy is in the west." The journal declares that con-, filiation with the western enemies- M impossible, and it believes that the Cbanccl’or to-day recognises Gait ''our ultimate aim is to push through to the west and the coean Whatever oilers resistance must be enie'iicd." As regards the lest Termini colonies, it says: If we should not succeed in reconquering ■what we have lest., we believe that the h:ouch province* aic- worth three 1 lines as much as our colonics, and we will take ounmensiiMou out of Franca. Let us da ; lv tell the French that every fool which wo can win is ours. We nerd not waste wood:; eve.- Belgium. We require access to the Chaum-l. and we need Antwerp. Whoever wonts Belgium must take it, fi-om us. Great Britain is mere assailable, than ]!u>---ia, and London can sooner be destroyed than Moscow, hccauso -Moscow costs blood. Louden only lorpeJoce. We cannot and do not desire to destroy the Bi iUsh Empire. But the en nude to- defeat of France, tranquillity westward, and respect on the seas of all contincnls—the German peace which we all desire must at least briny us this. Interesting in connection with, thi-: a.riiGe is another in the ' Dusseh,verier Genor.ilar.rciivr ’ by the Centre Keichstag deputy, Dr .Jaeger, who especially dwells on the future or Belgium. He say?: As regards Belgium, we must insist that the great: quantity of German blood shed in Belgium since 1914- must not have been shed Tn vain. In the fust place, Belgium mils; b't' our guarantee for a- good ponton of :he ce‘-L <M the w.r. Moreover, we tint'd- ret am permanently lire Memo line wii !i Liege and Namur. We must- nut allow these districts ' o be used bv lire enemy as points d'apptii . Th.e poll ion of old Luxemburg which has become Bclg’an may perhaps he csd.'ol to (be draad Duchy. After saving that, the Walloons might he cjrctcd iVem the-.r huncs. Dr Jaeger routimics; “We must leave Belgium her dyea-ty, but bring her politically, militarily, and i i-onomirrdly into Moser velaiion.-hiip with the G ennui Empire.'’ In Holland Ihe wilier (Xpict.s 1 1 1:11 tl-.rre will seen arise a desire to seek ill-' support of strong bidsim-iident. naval and land I'nwer, which will guarantee her valuable colonial peuiessions. Ar. Awrican lady at. Stratfoid-on-Avon showed even more than the* usual American fervor, him hail not recovered when she reached the railway station, for she m mark'd to a- friend, as they walked to the nlau’orai: “To iliink that it s from this very platform the immoital bard winild <k-i.:.it wheimver he jouruevod to town !*’