GERMANY STILL WANTS THE EARTH.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

GERMANY STILL WANTS THE EARTH.

The kind of peace which the demented German populace is still being taught to expect is not tlie Leeds peace, nor the Stockholm peace, nor the peace of the extremist wing of the Petrograd revolutionaries. The peace Germany has always wanted, the peace German soldiers and civilians are to-day being told they aro going to get, is a peace which will give Germany half the earth. In giving publicity to this opinion, through the medium of a London contemporary, Mr. Lovafc Fraser adds that Germany has one sot of peace terms for the pacifist dreamers of Britain and other countries, but quite another brand for home consumption. 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 Govern-ment-inspired professors, is published at Munich, and may be found in any German trench at the front, and in every Geiman city. Its title is “Germany’s Future,” and it defines the terms of tho “Hindenburg Peace,” which most misguided Hun 3 believe to be at hand. The pamphlet has received the official approval of the Prussian Minister, of War, General von Stein, and tho 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 the flagging spirits of tho German people. The point for us to remember is that until Prussia, is defeated in the field, millions of Germans will continue to be deluded by such methods. The German Chancellor told us to “look at the war map.” Tho British public may be advised to look at the two amazing “peace maps” printed :n the pamphlet. They show us, snvs Mr. Fraser, the real German answer to the Russian formula of “ 110 annexations and no indemnities.” One map discloses the German idea of Europe as j our foes wish to transform it when I peaco arrives. Nearly all Belgium, inj eluding the mouth of the Scheldt, is 1c ! remain in their hands. Professor Cru- ■ her, one of the authors of the pamph- | let, goes even farther than the map. ! He wants all Belgium, and the northern 1 part of the Pas do Calais, with Dun- | kirk, Calais and Boulogne. There must be no Channel Tunnel, lie conj tend?. 'That portion of North-Eastern | Franco which includes the Lorraine iron-fields must also become German. ( On her eastern front Germany is to ! absorb Poland and Cqurlnnd, and to acquire preferential domination and sovereignty over an immense area of j Western Russia, stretching from Finj land and Archangel to Odessa, and exi tending eastward through the Caucasus Ito tho Caspian. Petrograd is to no I Germanised. The Black Sea is to bo ! a German lake. Austria-Hungary; which will really be an appanage 1 f i the Hoheuzollerns, obtains all the ea-st-j'Crn shores- of the Adriatic, including | a third of Serbia and all Albania. Tho : pliant Hapsburgs also receive the plea--1 sant little gift of Southern Rouinania. Bulgaria is to be rewarded with two- ! thirds of Serbia and the Dobrudja. j “Do not,” proceeds Mr. Fraser, “treat ! this grotesque slicing up of Europe as ! a madman’s dream. Remember that 1 the Germans believe in it, that the , Prussian Minister of War endorses it, | and except on the Russian front, the German armies hold'all the-territories . thus earmarked. Nothing but the most 1 crusnmg military defeat can smash these megalomaniac pretensions.” Turn j now to the other map, which shows the 1 official German conception of the J world beneath the sheltering wings ot : the German eagle. Observe first that Germany expects to acquire the whole of tropical Africa, exactly as General Rinats warne us. She proposes to establish protectorates over Morocco and Tunis, and intends to seize British Somaliland. Turkey is to reconquer Egypt and Tripoli and the Sudan. India apparently becomes “a unified national organism with;her. own aims and objects in life,” though wo can imagine how long the Prussian wolves would spare such an unprotected heifer as Hindustan. Russia 1V graciously given all Persia. There arc some discrepancies between the two maps, but we have explained their principal features. One notices with thankfulness that Canada and Australia are mercifully felt unannexed. No attempt is made (at present) to dispose of the sun and moon and stars.. The difference beta eon tho German map of Europe and the German map of the world is that in Europe much of the invasion is already complete, but in Africa the Germans have been everywhere defeated. Vettherc are Radical newspapers and reviews in this country which are already imploring us to return to Germany her African colonies. But the wholesale spoliation of territory is only one phase of the “Hindenburg Peace.” I lie Allies are to pay Germany five billion .vine hundred million pounds as an indemnity, and the German national debt is to remain at the pre-war figure. A? 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 lie populated wholesale with German settlers. With all her territorial extensions, Germany will soon become self-supporting in the matter of food. The Russian Ukraine alone produces twenty million tons of wheat annually. There will be a trade and fisc 11 alhance throughout all the regions in which German influence is to become supreme. With a great German-Afri-can colnoial empire and a Turkish Egypt, Germany will be assured for ever of her supplies .of cotton, rubber, palm oil, cocoa, hemp and other commodities. By demanding half the Allied merchant vesselis, Germany will attain mercantile supremacy at sea. She will be in perpetual possession of all the coal and iron and oil she requires, and she seeks to safeguard her domination

of the Old World by expelling England from tho Mediterranean. Mr. Fraser professes to have given only the merest outline of this frenzied vision of “Maclit Politik.” “I have,” 110 concludes, "made no allusion to the innumerable diagrams, the masses of figures, and arguments addressed to German cupidity and greed, with which the pamphlet teems. We know full well that these phantasms can never become realities, but the German masses, witli their drugged imaginations and their brains warped by a defective diet, think otherwise. They aro told that tlie submarines will bring about Groat Britain’s downfall, thatjill these tilings will come to pass if Germany holds out; they believe what they nor told, and they are holding out. The pamphlet was issued after the Russian revolution began, but before the United States entered the war. The writers forgot one factor. Thev forgot the United States. No revised edition has hi en issued to explain that ten million young Americans have registered for war service, and are ready to fight against the Germanisation of this planet. The German scncmes will be blown sky-high like the ridge of Mess in os, 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. Wo know now what is meant by the ‘ Hindenburg Peace.’ ”