Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917. GERMANY AND THE FUTURE.
GERMAN professors are now openly stating that however soon peace may he made, and even if Germany has to he content with much less than she expected, she lias really gained such a political and economical ascendancy through the war over Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey, that in ten years’ (me she will, with their co-operation, lie able to throw a couple of million of men against the Suez Canal ami the same number against India, free from any interference by British sea power, and that for this purpose, strategic railways must he immediately put in hand to the Egyptian frontier. They say, and no doubt under official direct ion, that the one and only enemy is Britain, and that they will never rest until the death blow to that Empire has boon ’ given. Further, that now they control Turkey, Britain is vulnerable in the East, and cannot protect herself there. Thati is the -way Germany regards the prospects of peace. The Mercantile Gazette opines that they will have other things to attend to during the next ten years than the carrying out of this programme.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1737, 12 July 1917, Page 2
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195Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917. GERMANY AND THE FUTURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1737, 12 July 1917, Page 2
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