Second Edoition. WHAT GERMANY WANTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1915, Page 6

Second Edoition. WHAT GERMANY WANTS.

"PEACE TERMS" CONFIDED TO AMERICA. BELCJUM AND THE SEA. I Heir. Ijernburg, the Kaiser's fioan cial .agent in America, has formulated Germany's conditions of peace. They are intended (says the New York correspondent of a London paper) to convince Americans of the essentially jraace-lbving character and astounding moderation of Germany. • , As setforth in a special article in the Independent, the conditions include :~-

will, not consider.it wise to'take any European territory, but will "make minor corrections of f ronj tiers- for military purposes by occupying such frontier territories a? have, proved* to be weak spots in Germany's, armour. Sa ~ Belgium belongs geographically to the Empire. . . MoreBelgium's present plight is her ownfjfault-. She had becomf the vassal of England and France. Therewhile "probably" no attempt wiU'-be made to place Belgium within , the Empire, alongside ,of Bayaria, Wtirtemberg, and Saxony, because of her non-German popular will be incorporated in the Gjji'jnaii Customs. Union after the Luxemburg pattern. ■Britain, having bottled up tbo North Sea, a mare liborum—a ,free sea~j-must be re-established and the English theory that the sea is her bnjundary, and that all the sea is her territory, down to the three-mile limit of the other Powers, cannot b| -tolerated. Consequently; the Channel coasts, English, Dutch, Belgian, French, even in times of waliy must be neutralised. . . . AH cable's, too, must be neutralised. -A"|l-Germany"> coloni.es ar. to'bo returned. Germany's view is that her growing population must get extra territory capable of population by whites. The Monroe doctrine bars her from America. Therpfore, she must take Morocco "if it is yeally fit for the purpose." A free hand'for Germany-In the development of her commercial and industrial relations with Turkey "without outside interference." This woiild'"mean a recognised sphere of influence from the Persian Gulf to the Dardanelles. No more Japanisation of Manchuria. The right of all small nations, such as' Finland, Poland, the Boers of South Africa, if they support Germany, to frame their own destines. Egypt-to be returned, if it so desirefe, I tb Turkey. These : conditions, Herr Dernburg concludes . with unconscious humour, would "fulfil the peaceful aims Germany has had for the last 44 years."