GERMANY STILL WANTS THE EARTH.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1917, Page 4

GERMANY STILL WANTS THE EARTH.

(By Lovat Eraser in Daily Mail.)

The kind of peace which the demented German populace is still being taught to expect is not the Leeds peace, nor the Stockholm peace, nor the peace of the extremist wing of the Petrograd revolutionaries. Tho peace German}’ has always wanted, the peace German soldiers and civilians are to-day being told, they are going to get, is a peace which will give Germany half the earth. Germany has one set of peace terms for the pacifist dreamers of this and other countries, but quite another brand for home consumption. While Herr von Bethmann Ilollweg talks nebulous generalities for the wireless messages sent abroad, his colleagues are telling a very different story to the German Army and the German nation.

There has recently come into the possession of “ The Daily Mail ” an extraordinary pamphlet .which is now being circulated broadcast throughout Germany. It is the work of four Government-inspired professors, is published at Munich, and may be found in any German trench at the front and in every German city. Its title is “ Germany’s Future,” and it defines the terms of the “ Hindenburg Peace” which most misguided Huns suppose to be at band. The pamphlet lias received the official approval of the Prussian Minister of War, General von Stein, and the Munich “Post” says that its circulation “ en masse” is in the hands of military and civil officials. The whole scheme is an elaborate device to revive tho flagging spirits of the German people. The point for us to iemember is that until Prussia is defeated in the field millions ol Germans will continue to be deluded by such methods.

The German Chancellor told ns to look at the war map.” The British public may be advised to look at the two amazing “ peace maps ” printed in the pamphlet and reproduced, in the back page of “The Daily Mail this morning. They show us the real German answer to the Russian formula of “no annexations and no indemnities.”

One map discloses the German idea of Europe as our foes wish to transform it when peace arrives. Nearly all Belgium, including the mouth of the Scheldt, is to remain in their hands. Professor Gmber, one of Hie authors of the pamphlet, goes even farther than the map. Ho wants all Belgium, and the northern part of the Pas de Calais, with Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne. There must -bo no Channel Tnnnol, he contends. That portion of . North-Eastern France which includes the Lorraine ironfields must also become German. On her eastern front Germany is to absorb Poland and Courland and to acquire preferential domination and sovereignty over an immense area of Western Russia stretching from Finland and Archangel to Odessa, and extending eastward through the Caucasus to the. Caspian. ' Petrograd is to be Germanised. The Black Sea i s to ho a German lake. Austria-Hun-gary, which will really be an appanage of the Hohenzollerns, obtains all the eastern shores of the Adriatic, including a third of Serbia and all Albania. The pliant Ilapsburgs also receive the pleasant little gift of Southern Rumania. Bulgaria is to be rewarded with two-thirds of Serbia and the Dobrudja, Do not treat this grotesque slicing up of Europe as a madman’s dream. Remember that the Germans believe in it, that the Prussian Minister of War endorses it, and except on the Russian front tho German armies hold all the territories thus earmarked. Nothing but the most crushing military defeat {can smash these megalomaniac pretensions. Turu now to the other map, which shows the official German conception of the world beneath the sheltering wings of the German eagle. Observe first that Germany expects to acquire the whole of tropical Africa, exactly as General Smuts warned us. She proposes to establish protectorates over Morocco and Tunis, and intends to seize British Somaliland. Turkey is to reconquer Egypt and Tripoli an 1 the Sudan. India apparently becomes “a unified national organism with her

own aims arid objects in life,” though, we can imagine how long the Prussian wolves would spare sucli an unprotected heifer as Hindustan. Russia is graciously given all Persia. There are some discrepancies between the two maps, but I have explained their principal features. One notices with thankfulness that Canada and Australia are mercifully left unanuexed. No attempt is made (at present) to dispose of tho sun and moon and stars. The difference between the Geiman map of Europe and the German map of the world is that in Europe much of the invasion is already complete, but in Africa tbe Germans have been everywhere defeated. Yet there are Radical newspapers and reviews in this country which are already imploring us to return to Germany her African Colonies. * * * a *

But the wholesale spoliation of territory is only one phase of the “ Hindenburg Peace.” The Allies are to pay Germany five billion nine kvinddrccl million pounds as an indemnity, and the German national debt is to remain at the pre-war figure. As the Allies cannot pay so much in cash, Great Britain is to hand over half of .the English mercantile marine, part of the Royal Navy, and enormous quantities of food and raw materials. The Russian districts which pass to German control are to bo populated wholesale with German settlers, With all her territorial extensions Germany will soon become seif-sup-porting' in the matter of food. Ihe Russian Ukraine alono produces twenty million tons of wheat annually. Thera will be a trade and fiscal alliance throughout, all the regions in which German influence is to become supreme. With a great GermanAfrican colonial empire and a Turkish Egypt, Germany will be assured for ever of her supplies of cotton, rubber, palm oil. cocoa, lietnp. and other commodities. By demanding half the Allied merchant vessels, Germany will attain mercantile supremacy at sea. She will be in perpetual possession of all the coal and iron and nil she requires, and she seeks to safeguard her domina.fi m of the Old World by expelling England from the Mediterranean.

1 have only given the merest outline of this frenzied vision of Ma.'lit-Poli-tik.. I have made no allusion to the innumerable diagrams, the masses of figures, the arguments addressed to German cupidity and greed with which the pamphlet teem t. We know full well that tlnse phantasms can never become realities, bat tho German masses with their drugged imaginations and their brains warped by a defective diet think otherwise. They are . told that the submarines will bring about Great Britain’s downfall, that all these things v ill come to pass if Germ my holds out; they believe what, they are told, and they are hold ing out. The pamphlet was issued after the Russian revolution began, but before the United States entered the war. The writers forgot one factor. They forgot the United States. No revised edition has been issued to explain that ten million young Americans have registered for war service and are ready to fight, against the Germanmanisation of this planet. The German schemes will be blown sky-high like the ridge of Messines, but this little pamphlet is more significant than many pacifist conferences, for it tells us what the Germans and their War Minister are really thinking. We know what is meant by “ The Hindenburg Peace,”

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