"A GLANCE AT THE MAP."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16204, 14 April 1916, Page 4

"A GLANCE AT THE MAP."

"We have been victorious," declares the German Minister for War; "a glance at the map shows that." Yet few things have been so misleading as "glances at the map." This would have shown that Napoleon was once master of Europe "from the steppes to the sea— he died at St. Helena; that the Spaniard was once tyrant of half Europe, which, a generation later, had shaken off its fetters. It is true that Belgium is crushed down, part of France invaded, Poland and Courknd occupied, Servia devastated, but ten million men are under arms to right their wrongs and to destroy "Prussian militarism" for ever. It has never been possible for any tyranny to establish itself against neighbours whom it has combined against itself by deliberate and premeditated plans of general spoliation. Any success it attains is ephemeral. Its downfall is certain. The only possible hope of Prussianised Germany lies in its anxious desire that the Allies will tiro of the conflict and make a premature peace. Such folly on their part is inconceivable, for Prussian policy would simply renew the struggle under more favourable conditions in r,he near future. When the map is definitely redrawn it will show Alsace-Lorraine restored to France, Poland reorganised under the Tsar, the Slavonic peoples freed from Austria, Italy redeemed and Belgium restored. As for the German colonies, wo have all learned that they make intolerably dangerous neighbours.