Germany and Asia-Minor.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12508, 8 April 1909, Page 2

Germany and Asia-Minor.

An American exphange states that tfor ten years Germany has been i ejeheming, to gain control of Asia P Minor.- - She has succeeded, so well, r that to-day she is the only Power hay- \ ing railroads in actual operation in s that part of Turkey's domains. Ger- t mahy's dream of eventual occupation of a part of European Turkey is too c well known to excite even comment; a When "Germany is^reddy for her coup •> she will seize a strip of Turkish terr ! ritory from her 'own borders—with. „ the aid of' Austria—to the Mediter-- c ranean. ' Then with a- railroad to the t< head of the Persian Gulf, Germany *' would—in the event of war with Eng- £

and — have a direct line of railroad 'or the transportation of troops to a joint within striking distance of Inlia. This is not mere speculation. Germany's plans are known by every Power in Europe. Every chancellor — jverj' monarch — knows that Germany Ireams of the day when Austria, dirorced from Hungary, will become in integral part of the German empire. By that day Austria will have SXtdnded her domain to 4>he MecLMerranean, The recent annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is only a part of the general plan.