KAISER’S PEACE PLAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 10

KAISER’S PEACE PLAN.

INDEMNITIES PROPOSED IN 1917. ALLIE'S TO PAY IN MONEY, GOODS, AND TERRITORY. The Reflbiji; correspondent of the Manchester Guadian, writing on April 19, said: If- known here that a document liefe in the archives of the Foreign Office, written (by the ex-Kaiser in t-he spring: of IM7, stating his peace tertns. A£j}'ai‘6ntl > y*flt is another of the amazing Kaiser epistles, and transcends in importance as a key to mentality of the War Lord of Germany even Home of the marginal remarks by Karl Kautzky. “We have been at war more than two years, and my Government still failed to inform me what the war was being fought for” is the gist of the introduction, “so now in the name of my. army and mavy jl announce my pease precisely what these were in full detail my infonuation.does not state, but they included tke.-following points:— Germany to have Longwy and the . .Briey basin. Belgium to be divided, Geftpjany to - have the coast. The Kaiser to be Duke bf Cour- ‘ land. Germany to have Lithuania. . Germany to have the Azores and. Malta. / The United States to pay an indemnity of 40 billion dollars ( £BOOO million), France one of 30 billion idollars ( £6OOO million), England to pay an indemnity in money and material. A series of documents on the question of the throne of Rumania shows the Kaiser to have been absorbed in 1917 by the notion of having one of his sons appointed. His own candidate was Joachim, who, he writes, had been at the east front, and had written excellent reports, and whom he recommended also for his ability to make good public addresses. Apparently the court clique favored Prince Oscar, and the archives contain a report from that prince’s advocates, stating that he also had been at the front and had written good reports, and that to his qualifications Were to be added those of his wife by morganatic marriage, Countess de Bassewitz. The nature of this marriage, it'-was argued, should not prove an obstacle with such a country as Roumania. . Tile chief concern of these Prince Oscar tors was that his children should be nc- x eepted 'by the Hohenzollern family as members. ‘V. ‘There is also in the archives letter written early in 1917 by Herr. -Hugo Stinnes, protesting against a separate peace with Italy, which at that ..time seemed not improbable. The argument of Herr Stinnes reveals ardor ho believed in the succeed? of the submarine war.