The German Plans.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 January 1918, Page 1

The German Plans.

EX-AMBASSADOR GERARD'S VIEWS. (Auckland "Star" Correspondent.) CALGARY (Canada), Oct. 5. All Canada, in common with the United States, has been intensely interested in the experiences of ex-Am-bassador Gerard before the United States declared war on the Huns. Mr Gerard has attracted considerable notice by a speech in Victoria, British Columbia, before the local Canadian Ciab, where he roused his numerous hearers to a high pitch of enthusiasm by recounting his experiences as America's accredited representative to Berlin during 30 months or more of war. '' Germany started out in the autumn of 1914 to conquer the world. If it had not been for Great Britain she would have had the world by the throat," he said. "And now wc stand together on both sides of the line for the Monroe Doctrine. If Germany should win the war, or possibly gain a draw, the policy of our great President Monroe, I am afraid, would totter from its security. Germany has longed for a place in the sun, and an overseas empire in South America is a goal of her ambition. In October, 1915, the Kaiser stood in front of me, his nose not three inchcs from mine, and told me: 'After this war 1 shall stand no nonsense from America.' THE GERMAN DREAM. "I wonder if the Kaiser has thought about that statement since. But Prussian development of South America has been the dream of the Pan-Germans and the war party for years. Admiral von Tirpitz told me that Germany must hold the Belgian sea coast so that she might bring Britain to her knees. In an interview in which the Admiral's personality was but thinly veiled he stated that after accepting the surrender of the British Fleet collections would be made from that cowardly nation (the United States) to pay the expenses of the war. That was how the Germans in high places thought of America even before she declared war. They thought the country had sunk so low as to take blows in the face without a murmur. "And that is why we have got to see that there is no German peace," said the speaker amid cheers. "It will b'e impossible to put together again such a league of nations as is now combined to fight Prussia. Prussia hopes to bring about such a peace as will detach from that,group a sufficient number of countries to give herself an unquestioned superiority in any ambitions war she may seek to wage. In such a war we may be without a Joffre, thesecond Martel, to beat back the enemy at the crucial moment." Mr Gerard said in conclusion: "The Germans will last out. We have got to beat them in the field. HaV|o no illusions, no false ideas that we can win by causing hunger or civil strife in Germany. We must get at it with every atom of energy and fight,, and I think the Anglo-Saxons on both sides of tho lino have it in them to continue the light to unmistakabl^triumphs.''