BITTER ATTACK ON PAN-GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 98, 18 January 1918, Page 5

BITTER ATTACK ON PAN-GERMANS

BY FORMER MINISTER JUNKER ASPIRATIONS RIDICULED Amsterdam, January 16. Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, who prior to tho war was for some years German olonial Secretary, and during the war was an active agent in the Kaiser's interests m the United States till he was sent home in 1915, made a bitter attac.c on the Pan-Germans in a speech at I'rankfort. Dr. Dernburg ridiculed the demands for annexations a,nd indemnities. There was not enough gold \ said, to pay the cost of the war. Germany had no power to compel the payment of long-dated instalments from England and America, ihe valuo of tho mineral-producing districts of Longwy and Briey was 150 millions, which was equal to the cost of the war for twenty-five days. The idea of taking colonies was equally illusory. Tho German capital outlay upon her colonies before the war had only produced five million sterling a year, which was tho cost of the war for one day from six in the morning to eight at night. General disarmament was essential. The cost of the air war alono was equal to the whole German Army Budget before the wi.r. The cost of armaments on the new i scale was obviously unbearable.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn." ANNEXATIONISTS MASTERS OF THE SITUATION London, January 16. "he "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent reports that events in Berlin and Brest Litovsk show that the annexationists are complete masters of the situation. A mero.liint of the fall of von Hindenburg produced a flood of telegrams and resolutions, demanding peace, from all over tie Empire.

Tho Reichstag was helpless throughout tho crisis, and left the Government a, freo hand to deal with Russia. _ Admiral von Tirpitz, speaking in Berlin, said: "We need only to hold out in order to obtain peace in accordance with our wishes. _ Von Hindenburg and yon Ludendorff will secure our interests in the West, to surrender which would mean ruin to Germany's political and economic future."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.