GERMANY'S SOARING AMBITION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2282, 16 October 1914, Page 5

GERMANY'S SOARING AMBITION

PARTITIONING OF FRANCE AMBASSADOR'S DREAM OF THE. FUTURE Paris, October 14. M. ClenienceaUjOn unimpeachable authority, publishes a report of a conversation between Count von Bernstorff, the-German Ambassador at Washington, and a wealthy German-American.. The latter asked: "What will Germany do with France?" , ' . ThoAmbassador replied: "She will take all her colonies and the territory eastwardi of the line St. Valery en Caux to Lyons. " A war indemnity of four, hundred millions sterling will bo demanded, also a treaty allowing free entry for all Gorman goods in Franco for twenty-five years without reciprocity. That no recruits bo levied in France for twonty-fivo years, and the transfer to Germany of three million rifles, three thousand cannon, and forty thousand horses. Also that all Gorman patent rights be conceded in France without reciprocity, and that France sign an alliance with Germany." The Ambassador added that Germany would buy Russia and crush England ; whereupon England would turn against Russia and appeal to Germany for help. • St. Valory en Caux is on the French coast, midway between Dieppe and Le Havre. The territory to the eastward of a line from St. Valery Ao Lyons would include Paris and more than'one-third of the total area of France. The indemnity paid by Franco after the Franco-Prussian War was £200,000,000.