Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1917. A DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1755, 4 September 1917, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1917. A DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE.

FORM' Ammon comes a discviption of a remarkable map revealing the Germans’ cherished ideal of a vast Empire whore Kullur and oonnneree should he carried hy the all-con-quering Teuton. This map was lately received in Pittsburg, Penn.sylvania, hy Urn Carnegie Library from Professor Macniele Dixon, of (ho Univorsily of Glasgow. The map indicates (hal Germany, at the outset of the war, not only intended to invade Belgium, France, Russia, and the Balkans, but expected to stretch her Empire from the north-ern-most part of Sweden to (he Cape of Good Hope in Africa. It also pointed to (he conclusion (hat there was included in the plan of conquest the whole of South America, Cuba, China, and the Dutch East Indies; and it showed that Germany, through her Allies, Aus-tria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, intended to open a road into Asia and Africa. The map and data show farther that the entrance of England and France into the conflict at the beginning was the only tiling that prevented the German armies from sweeping north through Denmark and / Sweden to the Arctic Ocean. It appears to have been the Kaiser’s intention, simultaneously with this move, to jmsh through Central Africa, while German fleets landed troops to conquer South America, China and the islands of the East and West Indies. Professor Dixon’s deductions are that Germany did not intend to make war on Britain, and that all she wanted was a large seacoast along Northern France, to be gained by occupying territory north of the Loire and east of the Rhone rivers. Italy, Greece, and the Belkans, as well as Turkey, Northern Africa, and the Red Sea coasts were to he taken as part of the proposed Teutonic Empire. Enough of Russia also was to be occupied to give the Berlin Government complete control of the Black Sea, This plan of conquest, if it had been earned out, jyould have given Germany more

soacoast than any other nation, and would have made German authority from, a military standpoint paramount in all parts of the world. The map remains as an interesting relic of a high-flown scheme that collapsed like an exploded Zeppelin.