Evening star., 1905-10-07

in the open. The supreme committee of the
n9tional Arab party. party with Arabian
kings behind It whose very names and
Kingdoms are unknown to western peoples,
has acclaimed in writing throughout Arabia
that there is to be an Arab empire which
shall include all the Arab countries Of
Asia from the valley OF the Tigris and Eu-
pirates to the Isthmus OF Suez and from
the Mediterranean sea to the Gulf OF Oman.
And out of the Persian gulf through that
Gulf OF Oman must 60 the freight and
Of the Syrian peninsula. That way lies
Germanys road to the Pacific
So, as Russia has been striving to reach
the Arabian sea through Afghanistan and
too-into the waters OF Sinbad the Sailor,
through the waterways Of the commerce
of Haroun AL Raschid.
Those Same Old Balkans.
And first and foremost in the critical part
of the way stands the ancient storm center
Of Europe the Balkans. They seem fated
TO remain .he battle ground for all old
world politics, even when the stake is the
Pacific ocean,
And again 1t looks as If destiny were sure
ly with Germany. Despite all intrigues of
Russia. England and Turkey, Austria's in
huence in the Balkans remains mighty
one When Kaiser Franz Joseph dies what
Will become OF the mismated monarchy of
Austria-Hungary Already the two have
split on every question, down to the very
matter of the language in which commands
should I be given to the soldiers The proud
Hungarian denies even the shadow of al
legiance to the Emperor Of Austria as such,
and will acknowledge him only as an e'ect-
ed King of Hungary. When the crash
Genes German-Speaking Austria will go ul-
timately where she belongs, back to the
German federation. And then In one stride
Germany will plant one foot on the Medi-
terranean, owning the naval port of Trieste.
% will hn ~, fIN ID,1lr
the way to the goal Of the beckonng Pa
cif1c.
Move after move, Germany has prepared
for that day. Go to Turkish Salonica today
and you will find German influence in it.
for part of the German dream of empire Is
to have that ancient city for a port on the
Aegean sea. Go to Jaffa, on the coast of
Palestines and you Will be able to make
your way better with German than with
any other language except Turkish.
Germany's Faithful Colonies.
Everywhere Germany has planted her
people-the most faithful people on earth
just as she planted and is planting them
in Brazil under the law passed by the reich
stag in 1899, part Of which was literally:
mot only will the German preserve his ma
tionality, but he will find all the conditions
favorable to a prosperous existence. He
will. moreover, become consumer of the
products of German industry, and, conse-
quenty, a commercial and political inter-
mediary between his new country and his
mother country.
In the light of this policy, look at Ger
many's ''pick-ups'' In the Pacific-each of
them by itself an unconsidered tri1e. From
her Chinese colony Of Kiao Chau, the north
eastern passage across the Pacific, Is
marked by her holdings of the Marshall
Brown and Providence Islands. In another
direction lies German chain made Of Ger
man New Guinea. the Caroline, the Palaos
and the Mariana groups OF islands; farther
east lie the Solomon and Bismarck archi
pelagoes. all hers; and then come her hold
ingS in Samoa.
Petty in themselves, taken together they
form what an international authority late
ly termed "a kind of arch which commands
the great ocean roads to Australia and the
roads between New Zealand and Hawaii"
Already she has taken Australia's trade
with the Marshall Islands, England's trade
with Shan Tung, much of Americas trade
with Samoa and practically all the worlds
trade with the Solomon and Bismarck Is
lands. In Zanzibar, the Kameruns. Angra-
taken the great part of African trade: and
Africa is a stake in the fight for the Pa
cific, for that fight is not fight for a sea,
but fight for new and unexpected conti-
nents.
If 1t is indeed true that it is Germany's
destiny, as more than one European states
man believes, to grow into an empire reach
ing across southeastern Europe and over
ready for It,
No War if Possible.
She does not want to gain it by war. She
wants territory unhampered by the chains
and clogs that the other powers would at
tach to it If she won it through war. She
wants it to be hers absolutely, held as COM
pletely as are the German Sovereign
states of the present federation.
But the penalty of playing a game SO vast
hers is that she may have to make war
in self-defense, or that war may be thrust
upon her.
That war may come from Russia about
the Balkans, or from England about the
Persian gulf. If it be with Russia, we may
look for Turkey certainly, and Austria
probably. to join with Germany. France,
sick of her Russian bargain, may be glad
enough to stay aloof. But England, with
the Mediterranean ocean, that she fondly
views as her very own. threatened by a
nation vastly more to be feared than Rus
sia ever was, may easily be embroiled on
the one side of that very Russia whom she