The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-10-20
WHAT WILL Be THE
Terms OF PEACE?
Atlanta Journal.

what changes. territorial and other
wise. the war will bring to pass.
What will be the allies terms II
they win, or the Kaiser's terms IL
he should win? 1t Is rather a safe
guess that in the former event
France will recover Alsace-Lorraine
Belgium will be awarded a great in
domnity, England will take over
German colonies in Africa and else
where, Russia will extend her boun-
daries along the Austrian frontier,
Servia will be compensated with
land or money, perhaps, with both
and that Prussian ambition will be
stripped Of its war-making power
This Is merely faint outline Of
the predictions and conjectures that
can be ventured. France may de-
mand far more than Alsace- Lorraine
and financial recompense for the in
vasion she has suffered. Belgium
may insist upon having slice of
Germany in Europe and also in
Africa. England will carcely be
withdrawal from China, and she will
make the most OF the occasion to
build yet stronger her colonial in
terests. 1t has long been Russia's
dream to gain access to a southern
port and to cement the unity Of
Slavic nations; she will not daily IL
the opportunity comes.
1t is not incredible that the prov
tnces Of Schleswig and Holstein,
now the base OF Germany's navy and
of the famous Kiel canal, may be
declared neutral, or restored to Den
mark from whom Russia wrested
them some fifty years ago. Nor Is
1t inconceivable that the German
empire itself. built up so bodily and
skillfully through Bismarck's blood
and-iron policy, may be reduced to
something like it's original elements.
Likewise Austria-Hungary, COM
posed as 1t is of ill-sorted kingdoms
and peoples, may be split. An au-
tonomous Poland has been suggest
ed, and may materialize. Indeed
the political and territorial man of
Europe may shortly be transform
ed, all these suppositions being
promised, of course, upon victory
for the allies.
AS to the detailed changes that
may come, nothing more than
guess can be hazarded. but as to the
general purpose and policy OF the
allies, If they win. there seems little
doubt. The London correspondent
or The New York Herald, who evil
IDENTIFY is well informed, saws that
from talks with the highest diplo-
mats and from the views of journal
lists from England, Russia and
France, he is assured that the allies
will be satisfied with nothing short
OF the complete overthrow of the
Kaisers militarism.
"Prussian militarism must go"
this correspondent continues, from
the English, French and Russian
point of view, that is a requisite OF
the restoration of peace. Suppose
peace were seriously considered now,
diplomatists say, what could be the
terms? In Belgium alone, it is es-
timated, the property damage
amounted several days ago to two
hundred million dollars. Since then
several cities and towns have been
bombarded and partly destroyed.
France has been ravaged from the
northern border to within a few
leagues OF Paris. Vast armies have
been called into the field and vast
losses inflicted. The world might
we'll stand appalled, at the price
either combatant will have to paw
when all this is over. Should the
allies win, one Of the first matters
they would insist upon, / am in
formed, is the surrender of the
German fleet. This demand could
be prevented only by the destruction
OF the fleet in battle. Unless every
leader Of the allies stultifes him
self, the slogan Is found in these
words: The Kaiser must co."
The purpose of the allies. then, Is
to get unstinted requital for the
losses and injuries they claim to
have suffered and to crush the seat
of militarism which they contend Is
responsible for this war. French
journals are a unit in insisting that
adequate indemnity be demanded in
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