Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-08-10
wilhelm WOULD EXTEND HIS EMPIRE
SOUTH TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Southeastern Movement Gernanys Real Objective Says
Expert-Declares Present Operations Are Mask for
Main Plan-France Bottled Up.

verify believe that the movement
has 100000 men. One million can
keep France in check without much
| fighting. Another million can hold
back Russia with considerable fight
ing. This leaves him 100000 men
with 100000 Austrian allies. Enough
for great forward movement leav-
inE sufficient reserves. A great for
ward movement where? To south
eastern Europe.
IF this plan succeeds he will wipe
cut the Balkan question entirely. Aus
1ria, Greece, Bulgaria. will he king
doms in the new German empire as
Bavaria and Saxony are today. The
Prussian king will be German emperor
and his empire will front not upon
the Baltic but upon the Mediterran-
can. Asiatic Turkey together with
Mesopotamia will be German colonies.
The Bagdad railway will be German
! line to India. All of this is a purely
military problem and does not need
the command of the sea-
England Makes Mistake.
England is pursuing an ignis fatuus
in joining this war because the Ger
man fleet need never come to blows
with her. 1t need only keep near
enough to prevent the English fleet
from leaving the channel. Mean
while. Germany will be accomplish
ing her work on land. fail to see
what is meant by Germany. having a
hopeless cause i'm fighting the whole
world. She does not have to fight
| England. She does not have to fight
| France. She does not have to fight
Russia and that fight 1 think she can
win. My prediction is that the Ger
man emperor will come out of this
| war with the record of the master
10 tota nf La
the name of master commander of
| all the ages. The stake he is playing
for is enormous. The Germans un-'
derstand what it is and will back him
to the last drop of their Blood
| Asked If the French might take the
offensive and harass Germany in her
southeastern movement, this military
man replied:
French Army Hampered.
How can she? France has con-
demned herself to defensive war by
getting UP a frontier that is like no
other frontier in the world except the
great wall of China. She has built
chain of forts from Switzerland al
most to Belgium. They are we'll nigh
arc also a great barrier to .offense.
| Germany can and will plant 100000
men before these fortresses She may
sacrifice men all along the line as at
Liege, in play to the world that her
objective is to capture them. But it
will be only to keep the French from
doing anything for Russia. AS long as
the Germans are not utterly defeated
and driven off, the French must stay
in the neighborhood of their fortiti-
cations, because they dare not. move
out and let the Germans move in
This would spell disaster to
France So France is bottled up and
has herself put in the stopper. Her
maximum strength is just enough to
keep the frontier and take the often
sive against Germany"
1taly''s Neutrality Blow.
Where does Italy come in?'
| she comes In as the one problem
that the kaiser has not solved in his
preliminary moves. He does not know
which way she will jump. If against
| Austria, his plans are considerably de-
ranged. If on his side, the game is as
good as decided. No doubt that hesi-
fancy Of Italy to keep her engage
ments to the triple alliance has been
the most serious blow to the big Ger
man strategy yet met with. 1t was
more serious than the declaration Of
Great Britain. If the truth were
known, it is not improbable that the
kaiser courted England's declaration
OF war, in the hope that it would de-
| eide Italy to plunge in, on his side" .
will not the kaiser be merely
jumping out of the frying pan into the
fire by exchanging a French war for
enc against the Balkan states?"
NO because they will not all fight
him. Some he can hope to conciliate:
others to bride. AS for Greece, it is
a nation in hopes and sympathies al
ready"
Kaiser to Rule Austria.
How about Austria? What will
she do when she learns that, she is to
be dissolved and reconstructed into a
part of new German empire ?"
The dual monarchy Is dissolved al
ready in fact. if not in form. This
war will finish it. Austria Hungary
must either become German or its
constituent elements will sink to the
level of the present Balkan states. The
old Emperor Franz Joseph has out
lived all the Hapsburgs who are fit
TO rule. He may live to see his EN-
plre linked in partnership with Ger
many, shorn of some of it's glory, but
lrcomparably safer than ever before
He may see it. He may even now he
working to bring it about. Nothing
snort or some such ambition will ex-
plain the apparently mad Austrian
policy Of the past few weeks"
No news has come from Germanv
in the last ten days. none but the
p1 oclamations of the kaiser complaint
ing OF the envy of his neighbors n
the west. [ think the kaiser probably
pens them himself and that he does
ll to throw more sand in the faces al
the Franch and the English and tr
screen his real intent y