AT THE KAISER'S KNEE!

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 50, 15 October 1914, Page 5

AT THE KAISER'S KNEE!

"WHAT WILL GERMANY DO WITH FRANCE?" (Received 9.40 a.m.) Paris, October 14. M. Clemenceau, on unimpeachable authority, has published reports of a conversation between the German Ambassador at Washington and a wealthy German American. The American asked: "What ■ will Germany do with Francer"' and" the Ambassador replied': ' "Take all, the colonies and territory eastward of the line St. Valery, Eucaux and Lyons; impose a war indemnity of four hundred millions sterling; get a treaty allowing for the free entry of all German goods to France for twenty-five years, without reciprocity; no recruits to be levied in France for twentyfive years; the transfer to Germany of three million rifles, three thousand cannon, and forty thousand horses; the transfer of all German patent rights from France, without reciprocity; France to sign alliance to Germany." The Ambassador added: "And Germany would buy Russia and crush England, whereupon England would turn against Russia and appeal to Germany, for help!"