THE HINDENBURG PEACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10104, 11 October 1917, Page 2

THE HINDENBURG PEACE.

• OFFICIAL GERMAN PAMPHLET. "TERMS" FOR HOME CONSUMPTION. Germany has on*? set of peace terms for the pacifist dreamers of Allies' countries, 1 but quite another brand for home consump- ■ lion, writes Mr Laval. Eraser. An extra- ' ordinary pamphlet is now being circulated '.; broadcast throughout Germany. The work i ' of four Government-inspired professors, it j may bo found in any German trench at the i front, and in every German city. Its tide j is "Germany's Future," and it. defines Iho . terms of the "Ilindenburg Peace." The pamphlet has received the official approval of the Prussian Minister for War, General von Stein, and the Munich Tost says that its circulation is in fcho hands of military and civil officials. , j Two amazing "peaoo maps" are printed ,j in the pamphlet. One. map discloses the German idea, of Europe as our foes wish to transform it. Nearly all Belgium, including the mouth of the, Schedt, is to remain in their hands. Professor Gruber, one of ; ihe authors of the pamphlet., goes oven farther than the maps. He. wants all Belgium, and i.lio northern part of the Pas de Calais, with Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. There must be no Channel tunnel, ho contends. That portion of North-eastern France which includes the Lorraine iron(ields must also become German. On her .•astern front Germany is to absorb Poland and Coin-land, and to acquire preferential domination and sovoreicn'ty over an immense area, ol Western" Russia, stretching from Finland and Aichangel to Odessa, ana lextenilinir, eastward through the, Cmieasus In ilie ( i pian. Pctrograd is to bo German--1 isml. 'I he Black Sett i.- to he n Gorman lake. Ausiria-llungary, which will really, [be an appanage of the llohenzollerns,_ ob- \ tains all (he eastern shores of the Adriatic,) I including a third of Servia and all Albania, i The llansburgers also receive the little- gift' of' Southern Rouiiiauia. Bulgaria is to-be i.-vvardro with (wo thirds of Servia, and the Dobriidja. Tie- other map >.iio\vs that Germany exp.■(!■■. lo npC|iii'i-e the whole of tropical Africa She. proposes to establish protectorates ovrr Morocco and Tunis, ami intends id s. 1/.■• British Soniuliland. Turkey is io rrconqiwr Rg.vpt i\)\\\ Tripoli and- the Soudan. Indi i ap,jMtTiitly becomes "a , unified national ftvgiinism with her own amis ; a ohy"*t* i;i lifi ' 1 ; .u.:-i.i is }t.ui ously given till Persia. But the v.lieilcsale sp.iSMi'ou of I;rrilory is only o\y.< phase of the "Hindenburg Peace." The Alii".-, are (o pay Germany £5,900.000,000 as an ire demniiy, and iho German national debt is to remain a.t Wi" pre-war figure* As the Allies cannot pay so much in cas«h, Grea'fc Uritlijll >\i to hand over hall' U\o English tiiei'i'iiutile marine, part of t,W Royal Navy, uilt.l enormou- quantities of food and raw material.--. 'lho Russian districts which pins Io German nvo.to be populated wholesale -villi (fiic-Ktuun settlers. With ail her terriVftrfeil extensions Germany wiVisjon bcc.ot(\c\ nidli'-iupporting in the. matter of : The Russian Ukraine alow produce: f tons of wheat ivnmially. These i will be a trade and fiscal alliance through- ' -an nil the regions \- 0 which German influence is to l.teco(Vi,»> supreme. Willi a great Turkish Germany will lie assured for e.\'i't\ of her supplies of cotton, rubber, oil, cocoa, beiTVJV'ancl other commodi-] •<H:x. By demanding half the Allied me-v-! chant vessel*. Qowuanv will attain mercantile* Snp/reMW.V at sea. She will be iu }R>rivti.w) possession of all the coal uik) oil ■>ho requires); and she seeks to safeguard licv domination of the Old \\VrM by ex-, pelh'ng England from the McJUerrancaiL ,