NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 August 1917, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

GALE IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, this day. The cyclonic gale that raged yesterday from the north end down last night. During the night a southerly gale sprang up, accompanied by a steady downpour of rain. Considerable damage was done to fences and .gardens, and telegraph and telephone lines were knocked about. GAS WORKERS RESUME. WELLINGTON, this day. The retort hands at the gasworks, who stopped work on July Bth, resumed yesterday. HINDENBTJRG PEACE. OFFICIAL GERMAN PAMPHLET. "TERMS" FOR HOME CON- . SUMPTION.

Germany has one set of peace terms for the pacificist dreamers of allies' countries, but quite another brand for home consumption, writes Mr Loyat Fraser, An extraordinary pamphlet is now being circulated broadcast through out Germany, The work of four Gov-ernment-inspired professors, it may be found in any German trench at the front and in every German city. Its title-is '/Germany's Future," and it-defines-the terms of the "Hindenburg Peace." The pamphlet has received the official approval of the Prussian Minister for War, General von Stein, and the Munich Post says that its circulation is in the hands of military and civil officials.

Two amazing "peace maps" are printed in the pamphlet. One map discloses the German idea of Europe as our foes wish to transform it. Nearly all Belgium including the mouth of the Schedt, is to remain in their hands. Professor Grubcr, one of the authors of the pamphlet, goes even farther than the maps. He wants all Belgium and the northern part of the Pas de Calais, with Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne. There must be no Channel tunnel, he contends. That portion of North eastern France, which includes the Lorraine ironfields must also become German. On her eastern front Germany is to absorb Poland and Courland, and to acquire preferential domination and sovereignty over an immense area of Western Eussia, stretching from Finland, and Archangel to Odessa, and extending eastward through the Caucasus to the Caspian. Petrograd ■; is to

bo Germanised. The Black Sea is to a German lake. Austria-Hungary, which will really be an appanage of the Hozenzellerns, obtains all the eastern shores of the 'Adriatic including a third of Servia and all Albania. The Hapsburgs also receive the gift of Southern Roumania. Bulgaria is to be rewarded with two-thirds of Servia and the Dobrudja. The other map shows that Germany expects to acquire the whole of tropical Africa. She proposes to establish protectorates over Morocco and Tunis and

intends to seize British Somaliland. | Turkey is to reconquer Egypt and Tripoli, and the Soudan India apparently becomes "a unified national organism with her own aims and objects in life." Russia is graciously given all Persia. But the wholesale spoliation of territory is only one phase of the "Hindenburg Peace." The allies are to pay Germany £5,900,000,000 as an indemnity and the German national debt is to remain at the pre-war figure. As the Allies cannot pay so much in cash, Great Britain is to hand 'Over half the English mercantile marine, part of the Royal Navy and enormous quantities of food and raw materials. The Russian | districts which pass to German control 1 are to be populated wholesale with German settlers. With all her territorial extensions Germany will soon become self-supporting in the matter of food. The Russian Ukraine alone produces 20,000,000 tons of wheat annually There will be a trade and fiscal alliance throughout all the regions in which German influence is to become supreme. With a great German-African colonial empire and a Turkish Egypt, Germany will be assurred for ever of her supplies of cotton, rubber, palm oil, cocoa, hemp and other commodities By demanding half the allied merchantvessels, Germany will attain mercantile supremacy at set. She will be in perpetual possession of all the coal and iron she requires, and. she seeks to safeguard her domination of the Old World by expelling England from the I Mediterranean.