Germany and the Future.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 21 September 1917, Page 3

Germany and the Future.

German professors are now openly stating that however soon peace may be made, and even if Germany has to be content with much les3 than she expected, she has really gained such a political and economical ascendancy through the war over Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey, that in ten years' time she will, with their co-operation be able to thrbw a couple of million of men against the Suez Canal and the same number against India, free from any interference by British sea power; aDd that for this purpose, strategic, railways must be immediately put in hand to the Egyptian frontier. They say, and no doubt under official direction, that the one and only enemy is Britain, and that they will never rest until the death blow to that Empire has been given. Futher, that now they control Turkey, Britain is vulnerable in the East and cannot protect herself there. This is the way Germany regards the prospects of peace. We fancy they will have other, things to attend to during the next ten years than the carrying out of this programme.