"A GERMAN PEACE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 190, 1 May 1918, Page 6

"A GERMAN PEACE"

WHAT PRUSSIANISE IS FIGHTING FOK. l\x. Courtenay, at present performing at His Majesty's Theatre, has rtceiveti \ from Dngland a copy of the translation: of a German poster, issued by the Independent Uummitt.ee lor a German Peace (Dresden district), headed, "What is OuiPeace Going to Be?" and settiujfeut .iu parallel columns the detailed ciflurcnco betiieen what a Scheidemann peace would:, mean compared with a "Gorman peace. The conditions regarding the fitter are interesting becauso they set out exactly what Germany hopes lo yayi by coining . successhirty out iS tt\c pwsenV wax, awl are valuable as they warn the Allies wlmt to expect. Leaving Comrade bcliemcmaun's peace at rest for the time bwm, the following summary will give a pretty tDinnreJiensive idea of what a Germair. peace would mean (o the Germans, and. incidentally to those on the other Bide, of the fence. It means "to exact, in view of our enormous sacrifices in wood , and treasure, the minimum terms necessary for Germany's future existence and. development: , "That Belgium, particularly the coast of Flanders and Antwerp, must remain militarily, economically, and politically dependent on Germany. . '■That ii real freedom of the seas shall be created, and that we should get back our colonies and JiavaJ bases on an increased ecp.le. . ,_ . "To obtain tho mineral basin of Bney and Longwy, which furnished l-raijee. with her weapons qt attack, and also improvements for onr frontiers, .especially in tho Vosges, in accordance with the military situation and military ° 1 "An I easily defended frontier, the acquisition of tho 6ld Balkan provinces, and of rich soil for corn land for German peasant colonisation in order to "rotect the Empire from all future danR er of being stai'ved out. Imports of foodstuffs in IW2-13 amounted to three milliard murke (jeiSOMOM). : « 10 « * . a nuarter of a milliard (.£12,o00,000). Even- ten years 'JJC,OU» colonising iamilof suiallmeans fro;n Ihe Germwv Empire settle in Russia alone; independently of Europe and overseas. . •"With a 'German peace , there will be* iwM hectar M -520,:i(K) fiettlementsof new land for colanieation , land, Lithuania, Livonia, i-nd Lsthoma.. '••Germany', petroleum reauirmffliU are 1,300,000 tons per annum, ttiw ■*■ 'German peace , there would bo 1,800.000 tons of Rumanian oil tor • "That the enemies who suddenly fell upon' Germany will pay the cos lit'Jk* brand), even if it were concluded immcwith the guarantee of viotoiy.