The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-11-12
If Allies Win Russia Will
Gain Constantinople; Ger
many If That Country Wins
AFRICA BIG JACKPOT FOR
WHICH WARl0R0S PLAY
Teutons' Need More Room,
Which England Refused
Her. Hence Present World
Conflict.

Berlin, Oct 19.-(By Mail to New
York.)-whatever way the war goes
Turkey will be a changed country. If
the allies win, Russia will gain Con-
stantinople, and the rest of Turkey
will go to France and England. Per-
sia will go to France, in all likelihood,
or at least French influence will be
forced on the Persian government
If Germany wins, Turkey will sub
NIT to German influence and an ar
rangement will be made whereby Ger
man finance, German commerce and
German enterprise will be given the
inside track within Turkeys domain.
1t is in Africa that the big jackpot
for which the nations of Europe are
fighting is stacked up and how much
the map of Africa is changed depends
upon how pronounced victory either
side wins.
Germany has no great possessions in
Africa to lose. In fact, she has every
thing to win in the way of African
territory and little to have taken from
her.
The men of Germany who do not
measure this war in terms of dead
of hot hnf nix
in terms of what is to be gained
or lost, figure the final settlement out
in this way:
Portugal has got bit of the Congo;
she doesn't need it and she is not
improving it and just because the Por-
tugese of three hundred years ago
seized this territory is no proof that
Portugal is entitled to this territory
today. Germany needs the Portuguese
Congo.
France has a bit Of the Congo.
France is not a growing nation. In
1870, at the time OF her war with
Prussia, her population was 39,000,o0o.
1t is about 39,OOo,OOO today Germany
is growing nation. In 1879 her popu-
ALTON was 42,OOO,OOO Today it is g.
100000. Germany must have more ter
ritory and the French must surrender
their bit of Congo if Germany is vic
torious.
The English, too, have a bit of the
Congo. 1t goes without saying that,
if Germany has her way, England will
surrender this piece of Africa to her
rival.
The German argument is not that
she must have more soil or more
room for her masses.
Prof. Hans Delbrueck, the eminent
German publicist, who gave me most
of my information on this subject,
said to me:
"There is plenty of room in Ger
many for her masses. The trouble
with us is our overflow of the upper
classes. Our great educational insti
tutions turn out yearly more prefes
sional men than we have either room
or work for and we must have colonies
in which these men can expert thei1
energies. ...'
It is on England that PROT Del
brueck places the responsibility fol
the war.
1T was England alone that could
have avoided this war;" he said. I'll
England had agreed that Germany was
a growing country and that she was
entitled to have place in the worlc
there would have been no war. But
Germany needed room and territor,
and England would not permit her tt
take it. Instead England, knowing
that Russia desired to gain contro
over entire eastern Europe, encour
aged Russia, to strike the blow tha
brought on the present war.
"If Germany is crushed England vii
be master of the world, for she vii
then be able to dicstae to weakened
Russia, and to give France only
small portion of the Turkish territory
asked Prof. Debreuch what chanc'
there might be that the United State
would have an opportunity to arrang
peace between the allies and Germany
IF, at just the right moment Presl
dent Wilson says. This is miserabl
war and request you to stop AM
talk the matter over think he Woul
be heard"