PEACE-MADE IN GERMANY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 96, 15 October 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

PEACE-MADE IN GERMANY.

BRITAIN SUPPLANTED FRANCE CRUSHED!

BUT BERLIN DOES NOT WAN! THE WHOLE WORLD!

(The complete version of the astonishing manifesto by German " intellectuals" detailing some of the Prussian schemes for dividing up the world and establishing a Turco-German Empire of three continents makes excellent reading.) .

"We wish to strengthen ourselves against new enemies," says the manifesto, "We wish our country to become so great and 6trong that it will no longer be necessary for us to leave it in order to assure our existence." The intellectuals, however, add thoughtfully: "We do not demand the domination of the world, but the possibility to extend our culture nnd our industrial and commercial power throughout the whole world. France must be finished with once and for all, by improving the whole frontier from Belfort to the coast, and by conquering the part of the French coast along the Channel in order that Germany may thus fortify herself against England and obtain a better outlet to the open seas. BELGIUM AS GERMAN BASE. "As regards Belgium, we must hold her politically, militarily and commercially in our hands. She will thus constitute an incomparable naval base against the attempts of Great Britain The manifesto speaks of the growing Russian peril and says that the occupied part of Russia should become - rich agricultural country where the surplus German population and the refugees who have found an asySuni ni Germany will be settled. "Peace with Russia," it says, "which would not diminish Russian power and increase German territory, would surely lead to a renewal or rn& war. Once the Rusisans are driven back beyond their new frontier we shall not forget the war which England has made on the maritime and colonial commerce of Germany. That must oe the guide of our action. We must supplant the world trade of Great Britain. LONGING EYES ON PERSIAN GULF. "We must immediately seek to create for ourselves, apart from the empire of the seas, a Continental commercial enceinte as extensive as possible. Our friends Austria-Hungary and Turkey will open to us the Balkans and Asia Minor, and thus we shall as6ure ourselves of the Persian Gulf against the pretensions of Russia and Great Britain. . " We need liberty of the seas, which was the real cause of war between England and Germany. To obtain it we must have Egypt, the connecting link between British Africa and British Asia—Egypt which, with Australia, makes the Indian Ocean and English sea, which joins up all the British Colonies with the Mother Country, which, as Bismarck said, is the neck of the British Empire. "That is where England must be shaken. The Suez Canal route will then be free.and Turkey will regain her ancient right. INDEMNITY QUESTIONS. "We shall demand an indemnity which as much as possible shall cover war expenditure, the repair of damage, and pensions for disabled men, widows and orphans. We know that the question has been examined by the Government according to the financial capacities of our enemies. From England, which has been so niggardly in men, we can never demand enough money, because England raised the world against us with gold. It is our duty to crush the insatiable cuptdity of this nation.

" However, we shall probably have to apply for a war indemnity to France in the first place, if not exclusively. We ought not to hesitate, out of false sentiment, to impose upon France as much as possible. As mitigation she might be offered one of the sides cr the Suez Canal, while we occupy the other."