WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
GERMAN TERMS TO US,
Tho Entente must be made to pay all Germany’s war costs, including the cost of German armaments for the next 40 years, amounting to about £20,000,000,000— part to be paid in raw materials and by the surrender of half the Entente’s merchant fleets, and seizure of all private and public property in the annexed territories The ex-Kai-ser in July, 1917. Germany must obtain control not only of Belgium, but of the whole French coast from Dunkirk to. Boulogne, with the possssion of the Channel Islands; the mines of French Lorraine must pass under German control. The indemnities must provide for full reimbursement of war costs; payment for all damage caused by the war; the redemption of all Gerfman State debts; the creation of a large fund for (German) victims of the war.—Herr Erzberger.
THE WARNING. “They will cheat you, those junkers! Having won half the world by bloody murder, they are going to win the other half with tears in their eyes, crying for mercy.”—Carl Rosemeir, a German in Switzerland, to the Allies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1919, Page 3
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